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PEOPLE Vs. Francisco Dela Cruz

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FRANCISCO DELA CRUZ alias "PANKI," accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 105720 | 1995-12-08

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

To an increasing extent, the public is being treated to news reports of crimes of depravity committed by persons who are otherwise normal and in full possession of their aculties. They cannot be charged with being under the influence of intoxicating liquor or illegal drugs, nor of having acted under passion or obfuscation. And yet, in an instant, they are transformed into monsters of abomination.

Particularly abhorrent are those who, chancing upon young, innocent and guileless asses, are suddenly seized by an uncontrollable desire to inflict their libidinous urges on these hapless maidens. With hardly a...