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PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES VS. CIPRIANO

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, "PLAINTIFF APPELLEE" VS. PEDRO BUADO, JR. y CIPRIANO, "ACCUSED APPELLANT"

G.R. No. 170634 | 2013-01-08




EN BANC

D E C I S I O N

BERSAMIN, J.:

This case tells the revolting story of a lecherous father who made two of his very young daughters his sex slaves for several years right in the family home. The trial court convicted him and prescribed the death penalty for each of the two counts of rape. There would be no hesitation to affirm the penalty, but the intervening passage of the law prohibiting the imposition of the death penalty now spares him from the supreme penalty.

Under final review is the Decision promulgated on April 27, 2005,1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed with modification the May 5, 2003 judgment rendered in Criminal...