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PEOPLE vs REMEGIO DELA PENA

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. REMEGIO DELA PENA y BAGUIO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 128372 | 2001-03-12

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision dated December 11, 1996 of the Regional Trial Court of Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Branch 49, convicting appellant of the crime of rape and sentencing him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and to indemnify the victim the amount of P50,000.00 as moral damages.

Appellant Remegio dela Peña is a 63 year-old farmer residing at Casantiagoan, Laoac, Pangasinan. He stands accused of raping his niece, Vilma C. Lapeña, then 11 years old and a Grade V student.

The facts, based on the records, are as follows:

Sometime in February of 1989, in Casantiagoan, Laoac, Pangasinan, Vilma slept in the...