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PEOPLE vs. Enrique A. Ramirez

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. ENRIQUE RAMIREZ y ANTONIO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 97920 | 1997-01-20

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

Rape is a savage and bestial attack that violates a woman's person in the most grievous and odious way imaginable. This abomination revolts this Court no end. Perpetrators of this outrage are a depraved and evil lot who must be brought to the crucible of justice. In the present appeal, the offender repeatedly ravished and violated his own helpless step-daughter of tender years.

He deserves the severest penalty provided under our laws at the time of its commission.

This is an appeal from the Decision 1 dated December 20, 1989 of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch XLIX, 2 in Criminal Case No....