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Psychological and physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment;
Any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades or demeans the intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as a human
being;
Unreasonable deprivation of his basic needs for survival, such as food and shelter; or
Failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured child resulting in serious impairment of his growth and development
or in his permanent incapacity or death.
Petitioner claims that she did not inflict the injuries to debase, demean or degrade his dignity. She
characterizes her maltreatment as an act of discipline that a schoolteacher could reasonably do towards the
development of the child. She insists that her act came under the doctrine of in loco parentis.
In loco parentis (in the place of a parent) an individual who assumes parental status
RULING
The inflictions of physical injuries were unnecessary, violent, and excessive. Her maltreatment of him is
prohibited in the Family Code, which banned the corporal punishment by a member of school administration.
Rosaldes was charged and found guilty of child abuse, a violation of RA 7610.
The petitioner shall suffer the indeterminate penalty of four (4) years, nine (9) months and eleven (11)
days of prision correccional, as minimum, to seven (7) years, four (4) months and one (1) day of prision
mayor, as the maximum;
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P20, 000.00 as moral damages, P20, 000.00 as exemplary damages, and P20, 000.00 as temperate
damages, plus interest at the rate of 6% per annum on each item of the civil liability reckoned from the
finality of this decision until full payment; and