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People of the Phil. Vs. Elmer Glivano Y Silvallana

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Appellee, versus ELMER GLIVANO y SILVALLANA, Appeellant.

G.R. No. 177565 (Formerly G.R. Nos. 162634-83) | 2008-01-28

DECISION


NACHURA, J.:

This is not the first time that the Court has encountered such an outrageous display of moral depravity and irreverent disregard of parental duties. Far from being benumbed, however, this Court remains convulsed in shock, horror and fury at this account of a perverted father repeatedly molesting his 7-year-old stepdaughter for four years, and of a mother deserting her traumatized child to take the side of her lecherous husband.

For final review is the trial court's conviction of appellant Glivano for fifty (50) counts of qualified rape committed from 1995-1999 against the private complainant, his stepdaughter. By...