this judgment until fully paid.
WHEREFORE, the June 3, 2016 Decision of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CEBCR-HC. No. 01972, which affirmed with modification the November 24, 2014
Decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 45, Bais, Negros Oriental, finding
accused-appellant EEE guilty beyond reasonable doubt of qualified rape, is
AFFIRMED. He is hereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua
without eligibility for parole and ordered to pay AAA the amounts of P100,000.00 as
civil indemnity, P100,000.00 as moral damages, and P100,000.00 as exemplary
damages. All monetary awards for damages shall earn an interest rate of six
percent (6%) per annum, to be computed from the finality of this Decision until
fully paid.
SO ORDERED.
Perlas-Bernabe, Caguioa, and Reyes, Jr., JJ., concur.
Carpio, (Chairperson), J., on official leave.
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Acting Chairperson, per Special Order No. 2487 dated September 19, 2017.
Penned by Associate Justice Germano Francisco D. Legaspi, with Associate
Justices Gabriel T. Ingles and Edward B. Contreras concurring (Rollo, pp. 5-14; CA
rollo, pp. 54-63).
[1]
[2]
CA rollo, pp. 20-24; Records, pp. 84-88.
Under Article 266-A Paragraph 1 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended by
Republic Act No. 8353, in relation to Republic Act No. 7610.
[3]
[4]
Records, p. 3.
[5]
Id. at 21.
[6]
Id. at 30.
[7]
Id. at 15-16.
[8]
Id. at 8, 45.
[9]
Id. at 88; CA rollo, p. 24.
[10]
Rollo, pp. 13-14; CA rollo, pp. 62-63. (Emphasis in the original)