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PEOPLE Vs. Bobby Lusa

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BOBBY LUSA Y GERVACIO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 122246 | 1998-03-27

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

At fourteen, Michelle Lusa was abused, raped and impregnated by her own father, herein accused-appellant Bobby Lusa. Whatever respect and affection she held for her own father was replaced with hatred and antipathy. The eldest of six children, complainant lived with her family at Barangay Alcalde, Tibig, Silang, Cavite.

Sometime in the second week of September 1993 at around 12 o'clock midnight, she was sleeping with her younger brothers and sisters inside one of the rooms in their house. Suddenly, she felt someone touching her private parts. Recognizing the intruder to be no other than her father, complainant...