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People vs. S. Delantar

PEOPLE OF THE PHLIPEOPLEINES, Appellee, versus SIMPLICIO DELANTAR, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 169143 [Formerly G.R. No. 138328] | 2007-02-02

D E C I S I O N

 

Tinga, J.:

The forfeiture of the right to live free in society is the due requital for peddling a child to sexual servitude.

We begin with the antecedents.

On 27 August 1996, an information for violation of Section 5, Article III of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 7610[1] was filed against appellant Simplicio Delantar y Redondo. Docketed as Criminal Case No. 96-9175[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Pasay City, the information was amended on 3 September 1996.[3] The accusatory portion of the Amended Information reads:

That sometime and during the period from 1994 to August 1996, in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines and...