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PEOPLE Vs. Mario C. Lao

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO LAO Y CLARIN, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 117092 | 1995-10-06

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

What beastly motive would drive a father to commit so vile and despicable an act as to rape his daughter, his own flesh and blood, whom he is supposed to protect, not to destroy?

Although there is no definite answer to this question, one thing is certain: the father who does it descends to a level lower than the lowly animal for, as this Court stated in People vs. Ramos : 1

The latter yields only to biological impulses and is unfettered by social inhibitions when it mates with its own kin, but the man who rapes his own daughter violates not only her purity and her trust but also the mores of his...