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2007-09-21 |
CHICO-NAZARIO, J. |
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| We cannot end this ponencia without conveying our sentiment concerning this nauseating crime. It is a sad commentary on our times that rape has become so commonplace.[41] But even by the modern standards of morality, it is bad enough that a man imposes his lust on a woman mature in years and emotion. It is particularly bestial and repulsive, however, if as in the case at bar, the victim is a toddler, barely out of infancy and only just beginning her formative years. The brutality and the ugliness of the deviant behavior and the unmitigating menace of the evil visited upon AAA, a very young person, by a man whose age alone - 30 years her senior - should have dissuaded him from giving free rein to the animal in him. Defilers of women are an especially despicable ilk of evil men, and more so those who would inflict their lasciviousness upon innocent and defenseless children.[42] Whatever punishment is imposed on them can never expiate their loathsome offense, for which forgiveness itself, from a mortal court at least, would be a sin.[43] Pity the helpless and innocent victim, the bewildered and violated child.[44] | |||||