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Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian convicted murderer and child sex offender who is imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. [2] Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018.
The jailing of children in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to Amnesty International , over 50,000 children in the Philippines have been arrested and detained since 1995. Torture , rape and other forms of cruel and inhumane treatment are a part of everyday life for those children while they are incarcerated.
The Revised Penal Code criminalizes a whole class of acts that are generally accepted as criminal, such as the taking of a life whether through murder or homicide, rape, robbery theft, and treason. The Code also penalizes other acts that are considered criminal in the Philippines, such as adultery, concubinage, and abortion. It expressly ...
Murder of Sara Sharif; Sharpe family murders; Murder of Dean Shillingsworth; Phoenix Sinclair; Murder of Laree Slack; Death of Kelsey Smith-Briggs; Murder of Garnett Spears; Disappearance and murder of Gannon Stauch; Murder of Harriet Staunton; Death of Lisa Steinberg; Joel Steinberg; Murder of Malachi Subecz; Sugamo child abandonment case
The country also has the highest rate of murder cases in Southeast Asia in 2013, with a rate of 8.8, followed by Thailand. [1] The murder rate in the Philippines reached its peak in 2002 and 2010, with rates of 8.1 (6,553 cases) and 9.5 (8,894 cases). [2]
He was also charged with two counts of child abuse. Williams’ case was featured on In Pursuit with John Walsh in 2022 and a $25,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.
A mother and her partner have both been jailed for life with a minimum term of 39 years for murdering her son during a campaign of “horrific and prolonged torture”.
The capital crimes after the Philippines regained full sovereignty in July 1946 were murder and treason. However, no executions took place until April 25, 1950, [25] when Julio Gullien was executed for attempting to assassinate President Manuel Roxas. [26] Rape would later be listed as a capital crime in 1960. [27] [28]