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People vs. Oga 431 SCRA 354

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, appellee, vs. JOSE OGA y CALUNOD, appellant.

G.R. No. 152302 | 2004-06-08

D E C I S I O N 

DAVIDE, JR., C.J.: 

How would parents react if they catch their teen-aged daughter naked and lying beneath a naked man? Let us follow the travails of similarly situated parents as their domestic drama unfolds in the case at bar. 

Inside a makeshift house in a construction site in Navotas, Metro Manila, on the evening of 9 August 1998, Ignacio and his wife were peacefully slumbering, thinking that their 14-year-old daughter Irene was selling cigarettes at the fish pier. At around 2:00 a.m. of the following day, they were suddenly awakened by the loud banging of corrugated GI sheet.[1] 

Discovering that the...