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PEOPLE vs Gabriel Flores

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. GABRIEL FLORES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 130713 | 2000-01-20

D E C I S I O N


YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

On August 11, 1997, the Regional Trial Court, Branch 80 of Morong, Rizal imposed the supreme penalty of death on Gabriel Flores y Ladera and correspondingly ordered him to pay P50,000.00 as moral damages after finding him guilty of raping his stepdaughter, Jennifer Flores.1 [Decision penned by Judge Reynaldo G. Ros, Rollo, p. 15.]

The trial court summarized the prosecution and defense evidence in this wise:

Culled from the testimonial and documentary evidence adduced by the prosecution, it appears that sometime on April 13, 1996, at about 3:00 A.M., Jennifer Flores, 14 years old girl, was sleeping...