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PEOPLE v. MEDARDO CRESPO Y CRUZ

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	GR No. 208760 2014-04-23	PEOPLE v. FLORO BUBAN BARCELA MENDOZA, J.
The Court is not convinced. Behavioral psychology teaches us that, even among adults, people react to similar situations differently, and there is no standard form of human behavioral response when one is confronted with a startling or frightful experience.[15] Let it be underscored that these cases involve victims of tender years, and with their simple, unsophisticated minds, they must not have fully understood and realized at first the repercussions of the contemptible nature of the acts committed against them. This Court has repeatedly stated that no standard form of behavior could be anticipated of a rape victim following her defilement, particularly a child who could not be expected to fully comprehend the ways of an adult.[16] At any rate, it is not inconceivable that the victims continuously slept with Barcela despite the sexual molestations as it was undisputed that everybody in the victims' family slept in one room.
	GR No. 189297 2013-06-03	PEOPLE v. GUILLERMO LOMAQUE BRION, J.
Also, the fact that "AAA" resumed her normal life after the commission of the alleged rapes cannot be taken against her. We have consistently ruled that "no standard form of behavior can be anticipated of a rape victim following her defilement, particularly a child who could not be expected to fully comprehend the ways of an adult. People react differently to emotional stress and rape victims are no different from them."[24]
	GR No. 181497 2012-02-22	PEOPLE v. PATERNO SARMIENTO SAMANDRE LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.
In People v. Crespo, [33] we emphasized: It bears stressing once again that no woman would concoct a story of defloration, allow the examination of her private parts and subject herself to public trial or ridicule if she has not, in truth, been a victim of rape and impelled to seek justice for the wrong done to her. It is settled jurisprudence that when a woman says that she has been raped, she says in effect all that is necessary to show that rape was indeed committed. A woman would think twice before she concocts a story of rape, especially against her own father, unless she is motivated by a patent desire to seek justice for the wrong committed against her.
	GR No. 176740 2011-06-22	PEOPLE v. CARLO DUMADAG Y ROMIO DEL CASTILLO, J.
The failure of "AAA" to flee despite opportunity does not necessarily deviate from natural human conduct. It bears emphasis that human reactions vary and are unpredictable when facing a shocking and horrifying experience such as sexual assault. There is no uniform behavior expected of victims after being raped. [29] Moreover, "[n]ot all rape victims can be expected to act conformably to the usual expectations of everyone." [30] "AAA", being then a minor and subjected to a threat to her life, should not be judged by the norms of behavior expected of mature persons.
	GR No. 175831 2011-04-12	PEOPLE v. FLORANTE RELANES DEL CASTILLO, J.
"AAA" cried while recounting her awful experience at the hands of her own father so that the court had to order a brief recess for her to regain her composure.[22] Such display of emotion is a clear indication regarding the truth of the rape charges.[23] As has been repeatedly held, "no young girl would concoct a sordid tale of so serious a crime as rape at the hands of her own father, undergo medical examination, then subject herself to the stigma and embarrassment of a public trial, if her motive [was] other than a fervent desire to seek justice."[24]
	GR No. 180914 2010-11-24	PEOPLE v. DOMINGO DOMINGUEZ LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.
We find completely understandable AAA's silence and apparent assent to the sexual abuses of her father for a period of time. No standard form of behavior can be anticipated of a rape victim following her defilement, particularly a child who could not be expected to fully comprehend the ways of an adult. [41] More importantly, in incestuous rape cases, the father's abuse of the moral ascendancy and influence over his daughter can subjugate the latter's will thereby forcing her to do whatever he wants.[42] Otherwise stated, the moral and physical dominion of the father is sufficient to cow the victim into submission to his beastly desires.[43] AAA sufficiently explained that fear of her father's authority and shame kept her from revealing to others her ghastly ordeal at the hands of her own father. Moreover, AAA's fear of physical harm if she defied her father was real. By accused-appellant's own admission, on cross examination, he had used physical force to discipline his children whenever he was angry or mad.[44]
	GR No. 186540 2010-04-14	PEOPLE v. EMELDO 'PAMENTOLAN' OBINA NACHURA, J.
The civil indemnity and moral damages are separately granted in rape cases without need of proof other than the commission of the crime.[9] Civil indemnity is mandatorily awarded to the rape victim on the finding that rape was committed.[10] It is in the nature of actual or compensatory damages.[11]
	GR No. 183696 2008-10-24	PEOPLE v. NELSON ARRAZ CARPIO, J.
However, the Court modifies appellant's civil liability. He is still ordered to pay AAA P75,000 as civil indemnity and P25,000 as exemplary damages. The Court increases from P50,000 to P75,000 the award of moral damages in accordance with prevailing jurisprudence.[22]