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PEOPLE Vs. Conrado B. Lucas

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CONRADO LUCAS Y BRIONES, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 108172-73 | 1994-05-25

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

In a sworn statement 1 taken on 16 February 1991, Chanda Lucas y Austria, then seventeen years old, charged her natural father, accused Jose Conrado Lucas, of attempted rape committed against her on 12 February 1991. She revealed therein that she was first raped by him when she was only nine years old, or, as disclosed in a handwritten note at the left-hand margin of her sworn statement, "noong Nov. 26, 1982 . . . at naulit ng maraming beses."

On 19 February 1991, Chanda, assisted by her mother, Ofelia Austria-Lucas, filed two separate sworn criminal complaints for rape 2 and for attempted rape 3...