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PEOPLE vs Reynaldo Tagun

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REYNALDO TAGUN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 137745 | 2002-02-15

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

The world was anything but generous to Charity Tagun. Left to her paternal grandma's care by her mother, who had to seek greener pastures in a foreign land, her womanhood was defiled at an age when she barely was a girl. Worse, she points to her own father, appellant Reynaldo Tagun, as the author of the beastly act. Once again, before this court is a criminal case of an incestuous rape committed by a father against his minor child.

Appellant was indicted and tried under the following Information:

"That on or about and during the period covered by the months of December of 1991 to December of 1992, in the City...