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PEOPLE vs Melencio Hivela

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MELECIO HIVELA y BANGERAN alias MILING* defendant-appellant. [Also spelled M-e-l-i-n-g in the transcript of stenographic notes.]

G.R. No. 132061 | 1999-09-21

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

R A P E, by any measure, is an abhorrent assault upon the victim's womanhood and its bestial character becomes more pronounced when committed against one's own flesh and blood. A man ravishing his own daughter is an indubitable mark of his perverted and convulated mind; that is why life is ordained forfeit when committed under these circumstances.

Melecio Hivela y Bangeran alias Miling was meted the supreme penalty of death by the trial court which found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt of raping his 14-year old daughter Marilen Hivela. He was further sentenced to suffer the accessory penalties provided by...