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People Vs Quirino Quijada Y Circulado

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. QUIRINO QUIJADA y CIRCULADO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 114262 | 1999-11-25

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

Rape is a grave physical violation. It debases a woman's dignity, leaves a scar in her body and soul that not even time can heal. It subjects the woman's honor to scorn and its violation to public condemnation. At times the victim is left not only with her pain, but worse with a child conceived not out of love but lust and bestiality.

In an information filed with the Regional Trial Court, Tagbilaran City on June 27, 1991, third assistant provincial prosecutor Dionisio R. Calibo, Jr., upon a sworn complaint of Leonida Brina, charged accused-appellant, Quirino Quijada y Circulado, with robbery with rape, thus:
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