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PEOPLE vs. ROBERTO BATION

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ROBERTO BATION, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 134769-71 | 2001-10-12

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

The defense in the cases at bar blames lack of religious instruction in public schools[1] for the moral depravity of the accused Roberto Bation who not just once, but thrice unleashed his bestiality on his own flesh and blood and reduced his daughter to a sex object. The excuse the defense offers is as preposterous as the lechery the accused committed for even animals who are not endowed with human rationality protect and care for their young; the accused in these cases did not only utterly fail to live up to his responsibility as a parent, he failed to live up to being a human being endowed with reason,...