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2003-04-30 |
PANGANIBAN, J. |
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| The finding of Dra. Lilian Bringas that the private organ of the victim showed no recent lacerations, but only old healed ones at the 3 and the 9 o'clock positions,[50] cannot by itself be taken to mean necessarily that the latter had not been subjected to the crime charged. Neither virginity nor a finding of fresh vaginal lacerations would be essential to proving rape.[51] Lacerations, whether healed or fresh, are physical evidence of forcible defloration.[52] However, there can still be a finding of rape even if the medical examination shows no vaginal laceration at all.[53] | |||||