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PEOPLE vs Jimmy Jacob

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JIMMY JACOB y LOPEZ, accused-appellant.

G.R. Nos. 138576-77 | 2001-07-13

D E C I S I O N

PER CURIAM:

JIMMY JACOB Y LOPEZ was found guilty by the court a quo of two (2) counts of rape and sentenced to death for each count, and to pay the victim, his 14-year old daughter Celina A. Jacob, moral damages in the sum of P100,000.00 for both.[1]

A week before 1 November 1995 Celina Jacob was fetched by her father, accused Jimmy Jacob, from her grandmother's house in Silang, Cavite, to stay with him in his "barracks" in Kaylaway, Nasugbu, Batangas, to cook for him. At around 6:00 o'clock in the evening of 1 November 1995 she and her father were lying down and preparing to sleep on an improvised bed of wooden planks....