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PEOPLE vs Philip C. Tan, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PHILIP C. TAN, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 103134-40 | 1996-11-20

FRANCISCO, J.:


Before us is another tragic desecration of human dignity committed no less upon a child on the verge of womanhood, perpetrated by her very own stepfather and inflicted thru seven (7) abominable non-consensual acts of sex called rape.
Based on complaints filed by 16-year old complainant Annabelle Degay assisted by her mother Filomena Tan, wife of appellant Philip Tan, Jr., the latter was charged in fifteen (15) separate informations for raping complainant, appellant's own stepdaughter. 1 These informations contained identical language except as to the dates of the rape incidents as well as the means employed by appellant....