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2010-09-29 |
PEREZ, J. |
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| The Court is not persuaded by the defense claim that the series of rape incidents could not have happened without the other members of the family being made aware of it. In a long line of cases, this Court has ruled that a small living quarter has not been considered to be a safe refuge from a sexual assault.[28] Rape can be committed in the same room with the rapist's spouse or where other members of the family are also sleeping,[29] in a house where there are other occupants or even in places which to many might appear unlikely and high-risk venues for its commission.[30] Lust, it has been said before, is apparently no respecter of time and place.[31] Neither is it necessary for the rape to be committed in an isolated place, for rapists bear no respect for locale and time in carrying out their evil deed.[32] | |||||
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2001-04-03 |
YNARES-SANTIAGO, J. |
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| [C]onsiderable receptivity on the part of this Tribunal to lend credence to their version of what transpired, considering not only their relative vulnerability but also the shame and embarrassment to which such a grueling experience as a court trial, where they are called upon to lay bare what perhaps should be shrouded in secrecy, did expose them to. This is not to say that an uncritical acceptance should be the rule. It is only to emphasize that skepticism should be kept under control.[19] It takes depravity for a young girl, such as the victim herein, to concoct a story which would have placed her own father on the death row and drag herself and the rest of her family to a lifetime of shame.[20] | |||||