SEX CRIMES

SEX CRIMES
• Virginity
• Defloration
• Death related to sexual act
• Sex crimes
– Rape
– Seduction
– Acts of lasciviousness
– Abduction
– Adultery and concubinage
– Prostitution
• Sexual abnormalities
Virginity

• It is a condition of a female who has not experienced

sexual intercourse and whose genital organs have not
been altered by carnal knowledge.
• Kinds of virginity:
– Moral virginity
– Physical virginity
• True physical virginity
• False physical virginity
– Demi-virginity
– “Virgo intacta”
Determination of virginity:

• Parts of the female body:

– Breasts
– Vaginal canal
– Labia majora and labia minora
– Fourchette
– Hymen
Defloration:

It is the laceration or rupture of the hymen as a

result of sexual intercourse.
Determination of defloration:

• Condition of the vulva-gaping or not

• Fourchette- v shaped
• Vaginal canal- decrease rugae
• Hymen
Hymen:

• General condition of the hymen.

• Original shape of the orifice.
• If lacerated:
– Degree of laceration
– Location of laceration
– Duration of laceration
– Complications of lacerations
Degree of laceration of hymen:

• Incomplete laceration
– Superficial
– Deep
• Complete laceration
• Compound or complicated laceration
Duration of laceration of hymen:
• Fresh bleeding laceration- recent
• Fresh healing with fibrin formation with edema of the surrounding
tissues – after 24 hours
• Healed laceration with congested edges and with sharp coaptible
borders – 4-10 days
• Healed laceration with sharp coaptible borders without congestion
– 2-3 weeks
• Healed laceration with rounded non-coaptible borders and
retraction of edges – 1 month
Complication of laceration of
hymen:

• Secondary infection
• Hemorrhage
• Fistula formation
• Stricture
• Sterility
Death related to sexual act:

• Death of a male partner:

– Death from natural cause: increase demand in the
cardiovascular system
– Death maybe due to the defensive act of a woman-
victim
Death related to sexual act:

• Death of the female partner:

• In case of oral sex: asphyxia
• Accidental suffocation or strangulation during the act
• In cunnilingus, air embolism
• Infliction of injuries by saddist partner
• Deliberately done to conceal the crime of rape
• Shock as a result of extreme physical and mental trauma in rape
• Hemorrhage and infection
• Death of both partners
• CO poisoning
• Homicide-suicide pact
Sex crimes:
• Characteristics:
• Ancient and universal
• Close physical contact between the offender and the victim
• Crime by one sex against the other
• Sex is an inborn instinct.
• It is a crime committed in strict privacy.
• Many sex crimes are not reported; undue publicity is prejudicial to the
reputation of the victim.
• More frequent among lower socio-economic class.
• Pardon and forgiveness will extinguish criminal liability of offender.
• The severity of punishment does not deter its commission.
• If the offender is past middle age, the victims are usually children.
• The psychic trauma suffered by the victim of sex crimes varies with the
moral standard of the victim.
• Common in month of May.
Carnal knowledge:

• It is the act of man in having sexual bodily

connection with a woman.
– Slightest penetration in the sexual organ of the
female by the sexual organ of a male.
Rape committed by depriving the victim of her reason
or otherwise made unconscious:

• Deprival of reason.
• Rape committed on insane or mentally deficient woman.
• Rape committed while the woman is under the influence of alcohol
or other depressant drugs
• Sexual act on a woman under the influence of sex stimulating drugs.
• The woman victim is unconscious.
• Sexual act committed while the woman is on her natural sleep.
• Sexual act on a woman suffering from sleeping sickness.
• Sexual act on a woman who is unconscious because she was
knocked-out.
• Sexual act after administration of narcotics or other knock-out drugs.
• When the woman is under 12 years of age.
Medical evidences in rape:

• Evidences from the victim:

• Date, time and place of alleged commission of rape.
• Date, time and place of examination.
• Condition of clothings.
• The physician must observe the gait, the facial expression and the
bodily and mental attitude of the subject.
• Physical and mental development of the victim.
– Physical exam, mental state
• Examination of the body for signs of violence.
– Tenderness and swelling, age of lesion, x-ray
• Examination of the genitalia including the breast.
– Breast, vulva, hymen, pubic hair, vaginal canal
Medical evidences in rape:

• Examination of the alleged offender.

• Physical development, mental condition and strength
• Evidence of physical injury
– Abrasions in the neck, chest, penis
• Condition of sex organ.
• Evidence from the pubic hair.
• Potency of the offender.
• Evidence of genital infection.

•Evidences from the companion of the victim.

Investigation of the crime scene:

• Disturbance in the place of the commission.

• Strands of hair, blood, seminal fluid and other
stains to prove consummation.
• Pieces of personal belongings of the
offender/victim maybe recovered.
• Investigation of the witness.
Examination of seminal fluid:

• Semen is a viscid, albuminous fluid with faint

grayish-yellow color, having the characteristic
fishy odor and containing spermatozoa,
epithelial cells, etc…
• Spermatozoa – living organism present in
seminal fluid consisting of a head, neck and
tail.
– 60 million per cc, 80% motile
Examination of seminal fluid:

• Specimens to be examined for seminal fluid:

• Wearing apparel of the victim and the allege offender.
• Vaginal smear from the victim.
• Stains on the body of the victim and of the accused.
• Stains found at the site of the commission of the offense.
• Throat of the victim/ anal canal of the victim
• How long after sexual intercourse can
spermatozoa be found in the vaginal canal?
– Vagina: 48 hours
– Uterus and cervix: 2-4 days
• Can a woman be raped while she is on her
natural sleep?
– For virgins: highly improbable
– For multiparous: possible
Sexual abnormalities:

• As to the choice of sexual partner:

• Heterosexual
• Homosexual
• Overt
• Latent
• Infantosexual
• Pedophilia (homosexual and heterosexual)
• Bestosexual : bestiality or zoophilia
• Autosexual: masturbation
• Gerontophilia
• Necrophilia
• Incest
Reasons why physician fail to
detect child sexual abuse.

• The lack of hard physical evidence of abuse.

• A belief that sexual abuse does not exist.
• A fear of antagonizing parents.
• Ignorance of how to obtain a detailed sexual
history from the child.
Theories why adults become
interested in children:

• Emotional congruence
– Nondominant
– Low self-esteem, immaturity, narcissism
• Conditioning modeling – early childhood experience
• Blockage-alternative sexual gratification is unknown
because of unresolved conflicts, anxiety about sex
• Disinhibition
Sexual abnormalities:

• As to instinctual strength of sexual urge:

– Over sex: compulsive neurosis
• Satyriasis
• Nymphomania
– Under-sex:
• Sexual anesthesia
• Dyspareunia
• Vaginismus
• Old age
Sexual abnormalities:

• As to the mode of sexual expression:

– Oralism
• Fellatio, cunnilingus, anilism
– Sado-masochism (algolagnia) – pain as a factor in gratification
• Flaggelation, sadism(active), masochism (passive), cannibalism,
necrosadism, love bites
– Fetishism (an object is necessary for gratification)
• Anatomic, necrophilic, clothing, odor (urolagnia, coprolagnia),
pygmalionism, narcissism, incendiarism, vampirism
Sexual abnormalities:

• As to visual stimulus:
– Voyeurism
– mixoscopia
• As to the part of the body:
– Sodomy
– Uranism
– Frottage
– partialism
Sexual abnormalities:

• As to number:
– Troilism (menage a trois`)
– Pluralism
• Others:
– Coprolalia (obscene language)
– Don Juanism
– Exhibitionism
Sexual abnormalities:

• Sexual reversal:
– Tranvestism: psychic identification wit the opposite
sex. Sexual maladjustment
– Transexualism: surgical change of anatomic sex.
– Intersexuality:
• Gonadal agenesis
• Gonadal dysgenesis
• True hemaphrodite
• pseudohermaphrodite