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2003-09-30 |
PER CURIAM |
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| It is a settled jurisprudence that testimonies of child-victims are given full weight and credit. When a woman, more so if she is a minor, says that she has been raped, she says in effect all that is necessary to show that rape was committed.[28] Youth and immaturity are generally badges of truth and sincerity.[29] Young as she was then, Marilou withstood all the rigors of the case, such as the initial police interrogation, the medical examination, the formal charge, the public trial and the cross-examination. And she never wavered in her testimony even after it was explained to her that her father could be meted the death penalty if found guilty.[30] If it was true that she merely made up the charge, she should have been bothered by her conscience at the sight of her father in a prisoner's garb at the detention cell. It certainly would take a most senseless kind of depravity for a young daughter to concoct a story of rape which would consign her own father to the supreme penalty of death if the same were not the truth.[31] | |||||
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2000-04-12 |
PUNO, J. |
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| Appellant would impute ill-motive on complainant and her siblings in filing these charges against him allegedly because he whipped, scolded, and slapped them. We are not convinced. It would take a most senseless kind of depravity for a young daughter to concoct a story which could put her own father to prison for the rest of his life.[20] It cannot be believed that appellant's very own daughter would allow herself to be perverted if she was not truly motivated by a desire to seek retribution for the abominable violation committed against her by the father. It is extremely unlikely that the victim, presumably a virgin, an innocent and unsophisticated girl, unexposed to the ways of the world, would concoct a reprehensible story of defloration, no less than against her own father, allow an examination of her private parts and then subject herself to the rigors, trouble, inconvenience, ridicule and scandal of a public trial, where she has to bare her harrowing and traumatic experience, unless she was in fact raped and deeply motivated by her sincere desire to do so solely to seek justice and obtain redress for the unforgivable and wicked acts done on her.[21] | |||||
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2000-02-28 |
GONZAGA-REYES, J. |
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| It would be highly improbable for LEONILA, a ten-year-old girl, to cry rape against SALVADOR, her own uncle. By saying that she was raped, LEONILA also embroiled her own sister Marvie into the case when the latter corroborated LEONILA's testimony. Marvie's testimony revealed that SALVADOR also raped her the day after he raped LEONILA. These two young and inexperienced girls could not have woven an intricate story of defoliation that will forever mar their lives. Truly, they must have been impelled by a desire so strong as to let justice find its way.[24] | |||||