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PEOPLE vs Johnnettel Mayorga

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JHONNETTEL MAYORGA y LUMAGUE alias Puroy, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 135405 | 2000-11-29

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

Ravishers of the young, chaste and uninitiated are an ignominious breed of evil men. They are filthier than the slime where they belong, so that even their banishment to Hades for all eternity would be too low a price to pay for the innocent young lives they ruin and destroy. The case at bar, involving a sexual assault upon a child of tender years who had been orphaned by her mother and forsaken by her father, apostrophizes the havoc these despicable and evil beasts can forge.

The version of the prosecution,[1] as sustained by the trial court, is that at about five o'clock in the afternoon of 24 June...