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People vs. R. Batiancila y Moralde

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus RAYMOND BATIANCILA y MORALDE, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 174280 | 2007-01-30

                                                  DECISION


YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:


For review is the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR.-H.C. No. 00838, which affirmed in toto the March 3, 2004 Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City (RTC-QC), Branch 86 in Criminal Case No. Q-02-110479, finding Raymond Batiancila y Moralde guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape.

The facts of the case are as follows:

On June 30, 2002, then 12-year-old private complainant XYZ[3] was alone in...