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PEOPLE Vs. Allan Junio Y. Cortez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ALLAN JUNIO Y. CORTEZ, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 110990 | 1994-10-28

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

Fantasizing that the rape charge filed against him was perhaps an opportunity to project the immensity of his manhood, the accused bounces in his defense that if he indeed inserted his organ into complaining victim's the latter should have suffered serious if not devastating lacerations in her hymen. But the Court is not amused with his display of vanity and narcissism, for rape can be committed even with the slightest insertion.

Eleven-year old victim Maryjane Nicolas narrates that on 26 March 1992, at around nine o'clock in the evening, she and her two (2) younger sisters were sleeping in the bedroom...