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People vs. dela Torre

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. BUTCHOY DE LA TORRE and FE DE LA TORRE, appellants.

G.R. No. 121213 | 2004-01-13

D E C I S I O N

TINGA, J.:

The present cases are remarkably different, if not altogether unique, in two aspects. Appealed are nine (9) rape convictions of the same accused for ravishing the same hapless young girl. And found guilty are a husband and wife tandem.

Appellant-spouses Butchoy and Fe de la Torre were charged in nine (9) separate Amended Complaints with rape committed during the months of September, October and December 1992 in Barangay Tumarbong, Roxas, Palawan. The victim, Baby Jane Dagot, was then only sixteen (16) years old.

The first Amended Complaint dated February 23, 1994 charged the appellants with rape as follows:
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