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PEOPLE vs. Ramirez

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELIPE RAMIREZ Y CAMATIS, defendant-appellant.

G.R. Nos. L-30635-6 | 1976-01-29

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

It is unfortunate that in a number of cases involving sexual offenses, the person indicted is a step-father or a common-law husband taking advantage of a daughter of the spouse, a stranger by blood, but to all intents and purposes as much a member of the family. So it is in this appeal from a conviction of the accused Felipe Ramirez y Camatis for the crime of rape. He received the penalty of reclusion perpetua twice for the two separate occasions where, as found by the lower court, he employed force on a daughter of his common-law wife and thus succeeded in having intercourse with her. 1 There was no denial...