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PEOPLE. Vs. Arturo B. Cruz

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARTURO CRUZ y DE BELEN, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 82121 | 1989-12-29

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

Appeal from the judgment rendered by the Regional Trial Court at Caloocan City in Criminal Case No. C-27956, finding the defendant-appellant Arturo Cruz y De Belen guilty of the crime of Rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, to indemnify the victim, Jackeelyn Eustaquio, in the amount of P25,000.00, and to pay the costs.

The facts of the case, as stated by the Solicitor General in his Brief, are as follows:

"On December 4, 1986, at about noontime, the victim Jackeelyn Eustaquio, an 11-year old child (Exhibit "F", p. 81, Record) was washing clothes in the dam located at San...