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PEOPLE vs. Rogelio Torio, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROGELIO (GIGI) TORIO and TEOGENES NARCELLES III y ANGARA (ARNS NARCELLES), accused-appellants.

G.R. No. L-48731 | 1983-12-21

D E C I S I O N


GUERRERO, J.:

Where the medical examination of the fifteen-year old complainant showed one fresh laceration of the hymen at 6:00 o'clock (Exh. "B") which the admitting physician described as superficial (tsn, p. 3, Sept. 14, 1973), the claim of the victim herein that she was raped separately and successively by five different men is at once open to serious question. With such internal finding, her version of multiple rapes certainly calls for a careful and closer scrutiny. Initially, it strikes Us that according to the prosecution evidence, after the complainant was raped at the gasoline station by two accused, the girl...