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2015-02-25 |
PERALTA, J. |
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| Neither does AAA's mother's act of hitting her after learning about the rape prove anything. It is a truism that "the workings of the human mind when placed under emotional stress are unpredictable, and the people react differently."[59] Different people react differently to a given type of situation, and there is no standard form of behavioral response when one is confronted with a strange, startling or frightful experience.[60] At most, it merely indicates the frustration and dismay of a mother upon learning that her daughter had been defiled after partying late the night before. It is a settled rule that when there is no showing that private complainant was impelled by improper motive in making the accusation against the accused, her complaint is entitled to full faith and credence.[61] So if AAA in fact consented to the sexual act, why did she still need to immediately tell her parents about it when she could have just kept it to herself? Why did she ever have to shout rape? She was not caught in the act of making love with any of the private respondents,[62] nor was she shown to have been in a relationship with any of them of which her family disapproved.[63] She never became pregnant as a result of the deed. And if AAA cried rape to save her reputation, why would she have to drag the private respondents into the case and identify them as her rapists? Absent any circumstance indicating the contrary, she brought the charge against the private respondents simply because she was, in fact, violated and she wants to obtain justice. Her zeal in prosecuting the case, even after the CA had already acquitted the private respondents, evinces the truth that she merely seeks justice for her honor that has been debased.[64] Unfortunately, the CA chose to ignore these telling pieces of evidence. Its findings are against the logic and effect of the facts as presented by AAA in support of her complaint,[65] contrary to common human experience, and in utter disregard of the relevant laws and jurisprudence on the crime of rape. | |||||