CRIME: Rapist father jailed for life in Cebu.

In an amazing case of incest which has never been uncommon in society, the father of a fourteen year-old daughter girl was convicted for raping his daughter. The verdict was made public by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) which is based at Cebu on Monday.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for being found guilty of raping his daughter on five counts all of which were upheld.

The sentence included a reclusion perpetua which is a punishment similar to life imprisonment but entails at least 30 years in jail apart from other penal action. He was debarred from any parole and was fined with P300,000 per count to the victim as damages.

It is reported that the incidents pertain to 2010; she explained that he would threaten her with death if she refused to yield to his carnal pleasures or resisted his advances; that was not all, after consummating the rape, he would warn her not to tell her mother or the police or else he would kill her siblings and her.

The poor girl was so shattered that she refused to go home for about a week for fear of again being raped by her father; when questioned by her friend’s mother, she slowly narrated the incidents and the feeling of dread that had overtaken her. The friend’s mother took it upon herself to escort the young girl to the police station.

Saballa, the father put up a week defense stating that she was prone to loitering around with boys and would often come home late in the night and kept missing her school for which he scolded her.

This statement was not given any weightage by the court which commented that the charges were not of a nature that could be fabricated. The court believed the version of the underage girl and sentenced her father to life imprisonment and fines.

It is also stated that there were many attempts –by other family members to persuade the girl to retract her statement since the whole family depended on him for sustenance, but the girl stood firm on her charges.

Even the mother of the victim tried to plead to her to withdraw her statement but the little girl did not budge.

Under Filipino law, the penalty for raping a minor is death but the capital punishment has been kept in abeyance by replacing it with Reclusion Perpetua and not allowing parole.

 

Umrao Singh                                                    umraoz.wordpress.com

 

Written for:  Lars-Magnus Carlsson                             www.thephilippinepride.com

 

 

 

 

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