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PEOPLE Vs. Edgardo G. Manuel

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellee, vs. EDGARDO MANUEL Y GALANG, defendant and appellant.

G.R. Nos. 107732-32 | 1994-09-19

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

This case chronicles the harrowing experiences of a young girl, barely 14, at the hands of a member of the same household; twice snatched from sleep in the dead of night, her will to resist sapped by being made to smoke marijuana at knife-point, twice forced to submit in silence to that which her sex would consider the ultimate invasion ---- rape.

The Court is called upon to review the conviction of the accused on two informations filed before the trial court, ordering Edgardo Manuel y Galang to suffer reclusion perpetua and pay the victim the amounts of P40,000.00 as indemnity and P10,000.00 as moral...