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PEOPLE vs. VIRGILIO LORICA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VIRGILIO LORICA y MANJAREZ, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 135863 | 2001-11-22

D E C I S I O N

BUENA, J.:

A father who unleashes raw lust on his own flesh and blood is worse than a beast for humanity has yet to hear a tale of a beast which defiled the sanctity of its own young.

Accused-appellant Virgilio Lorica started sexually abusing his daughter Elenita P. Lorica since she was ten (10) years old when they were still residing in Quezon Province. He raped Elenita whenever his wife and other children were out of their house. He threatened her not to tell anybody about it, otherwise he would kill her.[1] Elenita, who could not stand his father's abuses, nonetheless told her mother about the rapes but her mother did...