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PEOPLE vs Henry Queigan

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. HENRY QUEIGAN, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 133586-603 | 2001-02-19

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Rape is a nauseating crime deserving the condemnation of all decent persons who recognize that a woman's cherished chastity is hers alone to surrender of her own free will. Whoever violates that will descends to the level of the odious beast. The act becomes doubly repulsive where the outrage is perpetrated on one's own flesh and blood for the culprit is reduced to a level lower than an animal. The latter yields only to biological impulses, unfettered by social inhibitions when it mates with its own kin, but the man who rapes his own daughter violates not only her purity and her trust but also the...