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2009-09-18 |
CARPIO MORALES, J. |
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| A word on the award of damages. The prevailing jurisprudence on like cases authorizes a civil indemnity of P50,000, not P75,000, in addition to moral damages for a like amount.[32] | |||||
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2004-02-23 |
QUISUMBING, J. |
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| Appellant's claim that Mylene's family falsely charged him with rape because of his failure to lend money to Mylene's mother is unconvincing. Time and again, this Court has stated that it would take a certain perversity on the part of a parent, especially a mother, to concoct a false charge of rape and then use her daughter as an instrument to settle a grudge.[38] We note that the appellant failed to present credible evidence to indicate that Mylene and her family harbored any ill-motive that prompted her to falsely testify against him. It is farfetched for a young woman to charge a man she barely knew with so grave a crime as rape and then unnecessarily open herself to public scrutiny if she was not really subjected to the sexual indignity complained of.[39] Otherwise stated, the absence of any improper motive on Mylene's part to testify for the prosecution strongly tends to sustain the conclusion that no such improper motive existed at the time she testified and her testimony is worthy of full faith and credit.[40] | |||||