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PEOPLE vs Ricardo Solmoro, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. RICARDO SOLMORO, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 139187-94. (140427-34)* | 2002-11-27

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J.:

THE CONVICTION OF RICARDO SOLMORO, JR., of seven (7) counts of rape by the court a quo and sentencing him to death in each count,[1] together with his conviction of the crime of acts of lasciviousness and imposing upon him a prison term of prision correccional is now before this Court on automatic review. For his crimes, the accused was also ordered to pay the victim, his own granddaughter, Maricar Solmoro, P300,000.00 as "moral and exemplary" damages.

Presumably, unlike most pre-adolescent teeners still unspoiled by worldly proclivities, Maricar Solmoro was initiated early on into the sordid realities of...