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PEOPLE vs Liberato Cabigting

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LIBERATO CABIGTING y SARMIENTO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 131806 | 2000-10-20

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

The case is an appeal filed by accused Liberato Cabigting y Sarmiento from the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Bulacan Branch 19, Malolos convicting him of rape, sentencing him to reclusion perpetua and to indemnify Sheryl M. de Ocampo in the sum of fifty thousand (P50,000.00) pesos as moral damages and fifty thousand (P50,000.00) pesos as exemplary damages, and to pay costs of suit.[1]

On April 23, 1996, Sheryl M. de Ocampo, with the assistance of her mother, filed with the Regional Trial Court, Bulacan, Malolos, a criminal complaint alleging, to wit:

"That on or about the 23rd day of November, 1995, in the...