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2010-07-06 |
PEREZ, J. |
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| While it is true that aside from AAA herself, the prosecution did not present any other witness who actually saw that the appellant raped and sexually abused AAA, such fact was not fatal to the prosecution's cause. There is no claim that other witnesses saw or could have seen the crime but were not presented in court. Indeed, credibility does not go with numbers. The testimony of a single witness, if categorical and candid, suffices. It is of judicial notice that the crime of rape is usually committed in a private place where only the aggressor and the rape victim are present.[59] Further, AAA has positively identified the appellant as the person who raped and sexually abused her and this negates the theory proffered by the appellant that the laceration found on AAA's vagina could have been caused by AAA's sexual intercourse with either of her two boyfriends. | |||||