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STALKING AND REVERSED STALKING
LEGAL HELPDESK, SOLAR NEWS CHANNEL, TV 21


 

STALKING & REVERSED STALKING
Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE
Valenzuela City, Philippines.
22 October 2013.

Stalking refers to an intentional act committed by a person who, knowingly and without lawful justification follows the woman or her child or places the woman or her child under surveillance directly or indirectly or a combination thereof. [Sec. 3, (a) (D) (4)(d), Republic Act 9262 An Act Defining Violence Against Women and their Children, Providing for Protective Measures for Victims, Prescribing Penalties Therefore, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES].

Prohibited Acts:

Stalking or following the woman or her child in public or private places [Sec. 5(h)(1) Republic Act 9262].

Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman or her child... [Sec. 5(h)(5)(i) Republic Act 9262].

PENALTIES:

Sec. 6. Penalties. The crime of violence against women and their children, under Sec. 5 hereof shall be punished according to the following rules:

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(f) Acts falling under Sec. 5(h) and Sec. 5(i) shall be punished by prision mayor.

If the acts are committed while the woman or child is pregnant or committed in the presence of her child, the penalty to be applied shall be the maximum period of penalty prescribed in the Sec.

In addition to imprisonment, the perpetrator shall (a) pay a fine of not less than one hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) but not more than three hundred thousand pesos (P300,000.00); (b) undergo mandatory psychological counselling or psychiatric treatment and shall report compliance to the court.

 

STALKING, DEFINED.

Various countries have different definitions of stalking. But what is common about these various definitions is the act of putting someone else under surveillance knowingly and without lawful justification. The above law discusses stalking committed to a woman or her children as a form of violence. Hence, in so far as the women or her children is concerned, the act of stalking is already punishable under that law.

However, due to the advent of technologies such as short messaging system (SMS), Internet, Social Networking to name a few, stalking is now carried out at a higher level. This time, however, the stalker becomes and remains anonymous. That is his intention.  And since one of the effect of stalking is the infliction of reasonable substantial fear on the part of the victim, such effect when brought about by SMS and/or Internet technologies is magnified for the stalker can give his victim the impression that he is just around the corner even when he is situated afar. It is the fear of being watched by an evil big brother that does most of the damage, albeit, emotionally or psychologically.

REVERSED STALKING IN RELATION TO ONLINE STALKING:

While stalking puts you under surveillance, Reversed Stalking is totally different. In Reversed Stalking, the stalker steals your identity online, either through a fake Facebook, Twitter or Blog Account or a combination thereof, adds your family members, friends, peers and acquaintances, schoolmates, batchmates, co-workers and business contacts for two purposes: (1) to gather information about you and your activities, (2) to spread false information about you as if the information is coming directly from you, (3) to give opinions, views or comment on other people's posts or Facebook status,  (4) to post status, comments or tweets to instigate a debate or trigger controversial issues, and (5) to attack and malign other people using your identity. Reverse Stalking puts the perpetrator in control of your life, albeit online. The perpetrator's insinuations will invite other people to hate you and your posts. People would think that it was you all along that was maligning them or at least annoying them through your posts and comments.

In Reversed Stalking, the perpetrator intended to inflict the greatest damage on your person and reputation when, after adding your friends, peers and business contacts, it spread malicious stories about you by way of self-confession and revelations as if these stories are coming from you when it is not.

Imagine the reaction of people around you when they read your posts: "I am a drug addict." "I love killing dogs." or "I had sex with my husband's best friend." Surely, this sort of "self-confessions" came from someone who stole you identity. That is the Concept of Reversed Stalking. And the harm is at its fullest when these malicious posts, libellous articles written about you find its way on top of the Google Search Engine's Page Results.

 

REMEDIES:

1. Remove these bad articles from the Google Search Engine's Page Results

2. Remove the fake Facebook, Twitter or Blog accounts

3. Trace its author

4. Gather substantial electronic and documentary evidence

5. Bring the perpetrator to court and apply the full force of the law.

These can be done. The author can be traced. The libellous materials can be erased totally from the Internet.

Call +632 510-5581, 0917 445 9295 for technical assistance.

Note:

Kudos to Atty. Rod Nepomuceno and Atty. Karen Jimeno-McBride of the LEGALHD (HELP DESK), Solar News Channel who invited me yesterday for the taped interview of their upcoming episode "STALKING AND PERSONAL PROTECTION."

The Legal Help Desk is a weekly, late-night on-air legal consultation program that provides viewers an idea on how the law can be applied to their daily lives, by giving practical advise concerning legal issues.

 

 

Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE is a Cyber Crime Consultant. He is a resource speaker in various training and seminars to the government agencies, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Private Corporations and Business Entities as well as Schools and Universities since 1989. He also conducts training and seminars on Ethical Hacking, Cyber Crime Forensics and Techniques, Data Communication, Web Page Design, Website Development, Website Administration and E-Commerce among others. Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE is also a SEO Practitioner, specializing in removing bad, malicious and libelous articles not only from the search engines' page results but from the Internet as well. Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE founded the International Portal Cyber Crime Complaint Center as well as Online Reputation Management Philippines.

 

 

 


 

CYBER CRIME COMPLAINT CENTER: STALKING AND PERSONAL PROTECTION

Copyright 1996 - 2013 Engr. Antonio E. Jimeno, Jr., ECE.  All Rights Reserved! Cybercrime Complaint Center is an International Center for Cyber Crime Documentation and prosecution of crimes committed in cyberspace. We help cybercitizens remove HTML:Iframe-inf viruses from their websites and help coordinate with various government and private entities in crime solutions involving the internet, technology gadgets, and cyberspace. We are successful in removing malicious and damaging blog sites who are destroying the goodname and reputation of individuals and businesses. Please contact us if you are experiencing harrassment in cyberspace. If you are a victim of crimes involving the internet, technology gadgets, and the like, please call us immediately for proper action. If you are a victim of cybercrimes, of people (cyber criminals) utilizing the internet to defraud and/or victimize innocent people, of people using the latest state of the art technology in taping unauthorized conversations, videos, taping sex videos using hidden camera recorders, or of cybercriminals threatening to malign your reputation, posting malicious articles in the internet, or trying to extort money and/or sexual considerations from you, Cybercrime Complaint Center is here to help you. We can assist you and your lawyer in gathering electronic documents for litigation purposes, track the cyber criminal on his location, profile and whereabouts, and coordinate with local and international authorities in the apprehension and arrest of the cyber criminal and bring him/her to the courts of law. And if you are wrongfully accused of a crime, or if you are a victim of negative public opinions (trial by publicity), we can help you clear your name and negate or remove the proliferation of negative articles and write-ups by flooding the search engines with positive p.r. (public relations) articles - we have done it in the past. We have succesfully removed our clients' negative write ups and libelous materials posted in the Google Blogger with the proper coordination and generous assistance by Google, and successfully beaten the negative write ups in the search engines by posting positive articles that were positioned on top of the search engines. When Necessity Demands Expertise - you can rely only on the industry experts with proven track records. The difficult, we do at once... the impossible takes a little longer...

Engr. Antonio "Tony" Jimeno, Jr., ECE pioneered the Philippines' First Online Cyber Crime Complaint Center catering to Internet crime victims worldwide, 
and created the  acronym Name Association Management Entrenchment (N.A.M.E.) TechniqueTM and applied the concept for his
Online Reputation Management Services in the Philippines. Engr. Antonio "Tony" Jimeno, Jr., ECE is now actively removing malicious blog sites and
Social Networking Sites containing Damaging, Malicious and/or Libelous Articles not only in the search engines but in the Internet as well.
Engr. Antonio "Tony" Jimeno, Jr., ECE also traces and removes hackers from personal computers and corporate networks as he also specializes in
Ethical Hacking (hacking and monitoring your own computer networks to test its vulnerabilities against hacking attacks and/or hacking activities).

"Engr. Antonio 'Tony' Jimeno, Jr., specializes in removing libelous articles and malicious blog sites not only in search engines but also in the Internet.
He coordinated closely with Google, Inc. (USA and Finland) for the successful removal of malicious and libelous blog sites
 against our lady-client who is a known executive in the travel industry. And while waiting for the favorable results,
Engr. Tony Jimeno took it upon himself to remove and de-list such sites in the Yahoo and Google Search Engines utilizing effective SEO Techniques.
Engr. Tony Jimeno was also able to identify the culprit and was able to gather enough electronic evidence to win our case
but our lady-client refused to proceed further for personal and security reasons." (Testimonial on the H.A.S. Case)