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PEOPLE vs Remegio Ruiz

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REMEGIO RUIZ, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 132369 | 1999-06-29

D E C I S I O N


VITUG, J.:

Evelyn Violeta was barely fifteen years old. An hour or so before dawn on 31 July 1994, she became another unfortunate victim of sexual assault. In open court, during the trial of the case, she was unable to contain herself and tearfully yelled, "binaboy mo ako," in identifying her attacker.

The accused, Remigio Ruiz, was tried before the Regional Trial Court of Malolos, Bulacan, Branch 15, for the crime of rape, with which he stood indicted in an information that read:

"That on or about the 31st day of July, 1994, in the municipality of Sta. Maria, province of Bulacan, Philippines, and within the...