‘Love hurts but prison more painful’

Source: Inquirer.net ( Original Article ) BEING SCORNED IN love can hurt. But revenge can send you to jail. The Court of Appeals has affirmed a four-year prison term, P100,000 fine and mandatory psychiatric treatment for a man who threatened to spread a pornographic picture with his ex-girlfriend’s face on it after she rebuffed his attempts to rekindle their relationship. The appellate court, in its Jan. 31 decision, ruled there was nothing questionable about the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Baler, Aurora, which in November 2006 found Rustan Ang guilty of violating the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act when he harassed his ex-girlfriend and caused her emotional distress. The woman had complained that on June 5, 2005, Ang sent her a picture through her cell phone of a nude woman with her legs apart. The face was hers. The day before, Ang, who is married, had asked her to be his textmate but she refused. She said her face had been apparently...