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PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. vs. JOSAN POBLADOR

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOSAN POBLADOR, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-44129 | 1977-04-29

FERNANDO, J.:

A rather unique feature of this prosecution for rape was the fact that the accused, a young man in his early twenties, was alleged to have assaulted a woman in her middle forties, with eleven children, some of them young girls above the age of puberty, right at a room in her house likewise occupied by another man, with her husband and other members of the family in the immediate vicinity. It may be recalled that it was partly on the basis of disparity in age that in People v. Mirasol, 1 Justice Recto acquitted a youth of twenty-four prosecuted at the instance of a widow of thirty-six, her claim being that there was an...