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PEOPLE vs Mario Caldona

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MARIO CALDONA y LLAMAS, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 126019 | 2001-03-01

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Mario Caldona is a self-confessed womanizer who admits having several wives. His lechery, however, was not merely confined to these women and breaks new ground in terms of the revolting for he satiated his lust and sexual depravity on not only one but three of his daughters. This case is the sordid tale of one of them.

For ravishing his daughter Maria Lolita Caldona, accused Mario Caldona y Llamas was charged in Criminal Case No. C-49696 with the crime of Qualified Rape, in an Information[1] which reads:

That on or about the 13th day of August 1995 in Kalookan City, MM., Philippines and within the...