Short answer. A foreigner convicted under RA 7610 is deported immediately after serving the sentence and is forever barred from re-entering the Philippines. Section 31 makes deportation and a permanent entry ban automatic consequences that follow the prison term — they are additional to, not a substitute for, the penalty served for the child-abuse offence.
What the law says
When the offender is a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after service of sentence and forever barred from entry to the country
RA 7610, Section 31 — Common Penal Provisions. Read the full provision →
Deportation and a permanent ban
Republic Act No. 7610 protects children from abuse, exploitation and discrimination, and its common penal provisions add special consequences for certain offenders. For a foreigner, the rule is blunt: When the offender is a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after service of sentence and forever barred from entry to the country. Two things follow automatically once he is convicted and has served his time. First, he is removed from the Philippines — deported — rather than allowed to simply remain as before. Second, the bar on returning is permanent: forever barred from entry. This is not a discretionary immigration decision to be argued case by case; the statute itself commands it as a consequence of the conviction.
It comes after the sentence, not instead of it
An important detail is the sequence. The foreigner is deported after service of sentence — meaning he first serves the criminal penalty imposed for the child-abuse offence in the Philippines, and only then is he expelled. Deportation is not an escape from punishment or a way to avoid prison; it is an added consequence that takes effect once the sentence is done. So a foreign offender faces the full weight of the ordinary penalty for the crime, plus removal, plus a lifetime prohibition on coming back. For the victim and the public, this closes the door on an offender simply returning to the country after paying the criminal price and resuming life here.
Part of a scheme of heavier penalties
The foreigner rule sits among other provisions that raise the stakes for aggravated offenders. Under the same common penal provisions, the penalty is imposed in its maximum period when the offender has a prior conviction under the Act, when a responsible officer of a corporation commits the violation, when the abuser is a close relative such as a parent, guardian or stepparent, or when the offender is a public officer or employee — in which case disqualification or suspension from office may be added as well. The through-line is that the law reserves its harshest treatment for those who exploit trust, position, or repetition, and a foreign offender's deportation and permanent ban fit that same protective design.
What the section does not resolve
This provision states consequences; it does not, by itself, define the underlying offences or their base penalties, which are set elsewhere in the Act. It also does not create a private payout to the victim the way an award of damages does, though it does direct that a court-imposed fine be administered as a cash fund by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and used for the rehabilitation of the child victim. Questions such as how deportation is carried out, or how a conviction interacts with other immigration and international rules, fall outside this text and can be complex. Anyone dealing with a case involving a foreign offender, or seeking help for a child victim, should bring the specifics to counsel or the proper authorities.