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PEOPLE vs Gorgonio Villarama

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. GORGONIO VILLARAMA alias “Baby”, appellant.

G.R. No. 139211 | 2003-02-12

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

On November 2, 1996, the spouses Rosendo and Merlita Tumulak went to the cemetery to light candles for the dead, leaving behind their three young children, Arthel (8 years old), Bernadeth (6 years old) and Elizabeth (4 years old), playing inside their house without adult supervision. That perhaps was the biggest mistake of their lives and one the couple will always regret. On that fateful day, their youngest child fell prey to the rapacious desires of a beast in the person of the child's own uncle, appellant Gorgonio Villarama.

Approximately between five to six o'clock in the afternoon, appellant, 35-year-old...