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PEOPLE vs Nilo Vedra

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NILO VEDRA,[1] accused-appellant

G.R. No. 108615 | 2000-10-09

D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Cagayan de Oro City, Branch 24, in Criminal Case No. 92-702, convicting appellant of the crime of rape, sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua, and ordering him to pay the victim the amount of P30,000.00 as moral damages.

The facts are as follows:

At around 7:00 P.M. on February 26, 1992, Gina Vedra, a 13 year-old girl, went to her grandmother's house to inform her parents that supper was ready. They told her to go ahead, so she headed home. When she reached a mango tree located about 100 meters from her house, a man came up to...