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PEOPLE Vs. Nestor Abella

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NESTOR ABELLA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 98124 | 1993-12-21

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

We are asked to weigh the testimony of a ten-year old girl against the denials of the herein appellant, who has been convicted of raping her. In pleading for his exoneration, he stresses that he was unjustly accused by the girl upon the prodding of her mother.

Based mainly on the girl's narration, the evidence for the prosecution showed that at around 8 o'clock in the evening of June 15, 1990, in Cagayan de Oro City, Charlyn Villablanca was sent by her mother to fetch her father from her uncle's house some 200 meters away. As her father tarried, she decided not to wait for him and to go back by herself alone....