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PEOPLE Vs. Rogelio Bondoy

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROGELIO BONDOY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 79089 | 1993-05-18

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

Failing to convince a thirty-one-year old storeowner and mother of two to drop the robbery charge she had filed against him, Rogelio Bondoy, after forcibly entering her store and nicking her abdomen with a sharp knife, raped her within hearing distance of her children. For such offense, Bondoy was arrested by the police on September 17, 1986 1 and on that same day, the offended party, Patria V. Sabularce, with the marital consent of her husband, filed a complaint for "rape with physical injuries" before the Municipal Trial Court of Tabaco, Albay. 2

On October 24, 1986, an information for rape with the use of...