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People vs. Agao y Anonuevo

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, V.S. EFREN AGAO Y ANONUEVO, ACCUSED-APPELLANT.

G.R. No. 248049 | 2022-10-04

D E C I S I O N
 
CAGUIOA, J.:
 
In yet another horrid case of the rape of a child, the Court here takes the difficult but important opportunity to clarify the anatomically accurate physical threshold of contact that must distinguish between attempted and consummated rape in the physical degrees of rape through sexual intercourse. Although at every turn unenviable, the Court now recognizes that there is perhaps no other way to reconcile and refine the current jurisprudence on rape than to peel away the euphemistic shrouds that have been resorted to so far, and instead inform case law with the exact anatomical situs of the pertinent...