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PEOPLE vs. Ricardo O. Rabosa

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner vs. RICARDO O. RABOSA, respondent.

G.R. Nos. 119362 & 120269 | 1997-06-09

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J:

What anguish, pain and shame an innocent fifteen-year old girl has to suffer when her pristine maidenhood, which is as dear to her as life itself, was deflowered by the offender's demonic lust, is hardly imaginable. But when the perpetrator of the dastardly act is the victim's own father, the torment of human degradation is more intolerable; one wonders how there can be such a person so absolutely devoid of any human feeling that distinguishes man from beast.

On the sworn complaint of fifteen-year old Maria Rizen T. Rabosa, two informations for Rape were filed against her father, Ricardo O. Rabosa, before the...