as moral damages, and ₱30,000.00 as exemplary damages, for each count of rape. The award of
damages shall earn legal interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the finality of this
judgment until fully paid.
SO ORDERED.
BIENVENIDO L. REYES
Associate Justice
WE CONCUR:
MARIA LOURDES P. A. SERENO
Chief Justice
Chairperson
TERESITA J. LEONARDO-DE CASTRO
Associate Justice
LUCAS P. BERSMAIN
Associate Justice
MARTIN S. VILLARAMA, JR.
Associate Justice
CERTIFICATION
Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, I certify that the conclusions in the above
Decision had been reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion
of the Court's Division.
MARIA LOURDES P. A. SERENO
Chief Justice
Footnotes
1
26 Am Jur SSS, p. 636.
2
Pursuant to People v. Mateo, G.R. Nos. 147678-87, July 7, 2004, 433 SCRA 640, 653-658.
Penned by Associate Justice Jane Aurora C. Lantion, with Associate Justices Edgardo A.
Camello and Rodrigo F. Lim, Jr., concurring; rollo, pp. 5-30.
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4
Issued by Judge Anthony E. Santos; records, pp. 760-769.
The real name of the victim, her personal circumstances and other information which tend
to establish or compromise her identity, as well as those of their immediate family or
household members, shall not be disclosed to protect her privacy and fictitious initials shall,
instead, be used, in accordance with People v. Cabalquinto (533 Phil. 703 [2006]), and A.M.
No. 04-11-09-SC dated September 19, 2006.
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