Anti Hazing Law Protection Against Hazing

Anti-Hazing Law

1. Anti-Hazing Law

2. Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse, or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. What is hazing?

3. Hazing is prohibited by law and may comprise either physical (possibly violent) abuse or psychological abuse. It may also include nudity or sexually-oriented offenses. Hazing can be seen in many types of social groups, including gangs, sports teams, schools military units, and fraternities/ sororities

4. Hazing can be seen in many types of social groups, including gangs, sports teams, schools military units, and fraternities/ sororities

5. Common Examples of Hazing Forced physical exercise Embarrassing or psychological harm to individual Bringing physical harm to other Degrading or otherwise compromising the dignity of the individual Activities requiring an unreasonable or inordinate amount of the individual’s time or impair the individual’s academic effort Making some an object of ridicule

6. Requiring consumption of any liquor or solid matter Requiring individuals to participate in any activity which is illegal or contrary to their genuine moral and/or religious beliefs or contrary to the educational institutional rules and regulations Violating any laws, rules or regulation associated with where the event is occurring Common Examples of Hazing

7. Republic Act 8049 or the Anti-Hazing Law was passed in 1995. It was passed as an answer to the increasing number of hazing-related injuries and deaths. Its actual title is “An Act Regulating Hazing and Other Forms of Initiation Rites in Fraternities, Sororities, and Other Organizations and Providing Penalties Therefor”. RA 8049: Anti-Hazing Law

8. What are the penalties provided by this Law ?

9. Result Penalty Death, rape, sodomy, mutilation Reclusion Perpetua Insane, imbecile, impotent, blind Reclusion Temporal in Maximum Period Loss of use of speech, hearing, smell, vision, foot, arm, leg, incapacitated to work Reclusion Temporal in Medium Period Deformed, lost any part of the body or use thereof, incapacitated for more than 90 days Reclusion Temporal in Minimum Period Ill or incapacitated for more than 30 days Prision Mayor in Maximum Period Ill or incapacitated for more than 10 days Prision Mayor in Medium Period Ill or incapacitated for 1-9 days Prision Mayor in Minimum Period Physical injuries which did not incapacitate him nor required medical assistance Prision Correccional in Maximum Period PUNISHABLE ACTS

10. Who are liable as principals?

11. If the person subjected to hazing or other forms of initiation rites suffers any physical injury or dies as a result thereof, the officers and members of the fraternity, sorority or organization who actually participated in the infliction of physical harm shall be liable as principals. If the hazing is held in the home of one of the officers or members of the fraternity, group, or organization, the parents shall be held liable as principals when they have actual knowledge of the hazing conducted therein but failed to take any action to prevent the same from occurring.

12. The officers, former officers, or alumn i of the organization, group, fraternity or sorority who actually planned the hazing although not present when the acts constituting the hazing were committed shall be liable as principals . A fraternity or sorority's adviser who is present when the acts constituting the hazing were committed and failed to take action to prevent the same from occurring shall be liable as principal . The presence of any person during the hazing is prima facie evidence of participation therein as principal unless he prevented the commission of the acts punishable herein.

13. Who are liable as accomplices?

14. The owner of the place where hazing is conducted shall be liable as an accomplice , when he has actual knowledge of the hazing conducted therein but failed to take any action to prevent the same from occurring . The school authorities including faculty members who consent to the hazing or who have actual knowledge thereof, but failed to take any action to prevent the same from occurring shall be punished as accomplices for the acts of hazing committed by the perpetrators.

15. These sections shall apply to the president, manager, director or other responsible officer of a corporation engaged in hazing as a requirement for employment in the manner provided herein.

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