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People vs. Conchada

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REMIGIO CONCHADA Y ASTRERA, accused appellant.

G.R. Nos. L-39367-69 | 1979-02-28

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The law and understandably so looks with repugnance at the crime of rape, but never is the commission of such an offense attended with such infamy as when the victim is a girl of tender years. The predicament, therefore, in which appellant Remigio Conchada y Astrera found himself was far from enviable. He was accused of the crime of raping the complainant, then only eight years of age, in three separate complaints. 1 After trial he was duly convicted, the penalty imposed being reclusion perpetua in each one of the above cases. Precisely because the sympathy of the Court is with the complainant, whose...