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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Thursday, January 5, 2017
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ILOILO City – A woman charged with oral defamation secured her temporarily liberty by posting bail.
Maria Florence Mana-ay, 43, was a resident of Barangay Poblacion, New Lucena, Iloilo.
Upon learning that a court had issued a warrant for her arrest, she voluntarily surrendered to the police on Jan. 2.
Mana-ay was released after she posted bail that the court set at P6,000.
Slander or oral defamation is penalized under the Revised Penal Code. To successfully lodge a case for slander, the following elements must be proven:
* there is an imputation of a crime, vice, defect, act, omission, condition, status or circumstance
* the imputation is made publicly
* the imputation must be made maliciously
* the imputation is directed against a natural or juridical person or one who is dead
* the imputation tends to cause dishonor, discredit or contempt of a person or tends to blacken the memory of one who is dead
If the imputation is verbally made, then it is considered slander. However, if the imputation is made through writing, printing, lithography, radio and other similar means, it is punishable as libel.
Article 358 of the Revised Penal Code provides: “Oral defamation shall be punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period if it is of a serious and insulting nature; otherwise, the penalty shall be arresto menor or a fine not exceeding P200.”/PN
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