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PEOPLE Vs. Felipe Bahuyan

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FELIPE BAHUYAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 105842 | 1994-11-24

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

How can this Court employ words strong enough to describe the contemptible act of a lecherous widower claiming to be over eighty years old who, taking advantage of the innocence of an eleven-year old girl and his close relationship with her family, forced her at the point of a knife to surrender her virginity to him? Indeed, this will not be the first time, nor will it certainly be the last, that we shall reject the defense of advanced age in a charge of rape, particularly in affirmance of the lower court's factual finding that accused-appellant is literally and figuratively a "dirty old man."

On October 19,...