reclusive behavior prompted him to ask angrily: "[W]hy are you lying on the c{o]t[?]", and to instantaneously order: "You transfer here [to] our bed."36 KKK insisted to stay on the cot and explained that she had headache and abdominal pain due to her forthcoming menstruation. Her reasons did not appease him and he got angrier. He rose from the bed, lifted the cot and threw it against the wall causing KKK to fall on the floor. Terrified, KKK stood up from where she fell, took her pillow and transferred to the bed.37 The accused-appellant then lay beside KKK and not before long, expressed his desire to copulate with her by tapping his fingers on her lap. She politely declined by warding off his hand and reiterating that she was not feeling well.38 The accused-appellant again asserted his sexual yearning and when KKK tried to resist by holding on to her panties, he pulled them down so forcefully they tore on the sides.39 KKK stayed defiant by refusing to bend her legs.40 The accused-appellant then raised KKK's daster,41 stretched her legs apart and rested his own legs on them. She tried to wrestle him away but he held her hands and succeeded in penetrating her. As he was carrying out his carnal desires, KKK continued to protest by desperately shouting: "[D]on 't do that to me because I'm not feeling well."42 With a concrete wall on one side and a mere wooden partition on the other enclosing the spouses' bedroom,43 KKK's pleas were audible in the children's bedroom where MMM lay awake. Upon hearing her mother crying and hysterically shouting: "Eddie, don't do that to me, have pity on me,"44 MMM woke up 000 who prodded her to go to their parents' room.45 MMM hurriedly climbed upstairs, vigorously knocked on the door of her parents' bedroom and inquired: "Pa, why is it that Mama is crying?"46 The accused-appellant then quickly put on his briefs and shirt, partly opened the door and said: "[D]on 't interfere because this is a family trouble," before closing it again.47 Since she heard her mother continue to cry, MMM ignored his father's admonition, knocked at the bedroom door again, and then kicked it.48 A furious accused-appellant opened the door wider and rebuked MMM once more: "Don't interfere us. Go downstairs because this is family trouble!" Upon seeing KKK crouching and crying on top of the bed, MMM boldly entered the room, approached her mother and asked: "Ma, why are you crying?" before asking her father: "Pa, what happened to Mama why is it that her underwear is torn[?]"49 When MMM received no definite answers to her questions, she helped her mother get up in order to bring her to the girls' bedroom. KKK then picked up her tom underwear and covered herself with a blanket.50 However, their breakout from the room was not easy. To prevent KKK from leaving, the accused-appellant blocked the doorway by extending his arm towards the knob. He commanded KKK to "[S]tay here, you sleep in our room," when the trembling KKK pleaded: "Eddie, allow me to go out." He then held KKK's hands but she pulled them back. Determined to get away, MMM leaned against door and embraced her mother tightly as they pushed their way out.51 In their bedroom, the girls gave their mother some water and queried her as to what happened.52 KKK relayed: "[Y]our father is an animal, a beast; he forced me to have sex with him when I'm not feeling well." The girls then locked the door and let her rest."53 The accused-appellant's aggression recurred the following night. After closing the family store on October 17, 1998, KKK and the children took their supper. The accused-appellant did not join them since, according to him, he already ate dinner elsewhere. After resting for a short while, KKK and the children proceeded to the girls' bedroom and prayed the rosary. KKK decided to spend the night in