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    A man accosted a woman in an alley, held a sharp object to her neck, and dragged her to his house where he robbed her of her belongings and sexually abused her twice in under an hour. He was arrested after allowing the victim to go home to get things to elope with him, but she instead sought help from police. The court considered whether the multiple rapes should be an aggravating circumstance, but held that they could not, as the law does not specify additional rapes as aggravating. The man was correctly charged with robbery with rape and no aggravating factors.

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    A man accosted a woman in an alley, held a sharp object to her neck, and dragged her to his house where he robbed her of her belongings and sexually abused her twice in under an hour. He was arrested after allowing the victim to go home to get things to elope with him, but she instead sought help from police. The court considered whether the multiple rapes should be an aggravating circumstance, but held that they could not, as the law does not specify additional rapes as aggravating. The man was correctly charged with robbery with rape and no aggravating factors.

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    A man accosted a woman in an alley, held a sharp object to her neck, and dragged her to his house where he robbed her of her belongings and sexually abused her twice in under an hour. He was arrested after allowing the victim to go home to get things to elope with him, but she instead sought help from police. The court considered whether the multiple rapes should be an aggravating circumstance, but held that they could not, as the law does not specify additional rapes as aggravating. The man was correctly charged with robbery with rape and no aggravating factors.

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    A man accosted a woman in an alley, held a sharp object to her neck, and dragged her to his house where he robbed her of her belongings and sexually abused her twice in under an hour. He was arrested after allowing the victim to go home to get things to elope with him, but she instead sought help from police. The court considered whether the multiple rapes should be an aggravating circumstance, but held that they could not, as the law does not specify additional rapes as aggravating. The man was correctly charged with robbery with rape and no aggravating factors.

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    PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FERNANDO SULTAN y LATO, Accused-Appellant.

    G.R. No. 132470

    April 27, 2000

    Facts:

    One evening on June 2, 1997, Juditha M. Bautista, the victim, was on her way home when she was accosted

    in a dark alley by the accused, Fernando Sultan, who pointed a sharp object at her neck and told her this is a hold-up.

    He managed to drag her into his house and started robbing her watch, earrings, ring, necklace and her Php 130 cash.

    He then started sexually abusing her; this sexual abuse happened twice in a span of less than an hour. After sexually

    accosting the victim, he promised her that he would answer for everything that he had done to her and asked her to

    elope with him in which the victim agreed in an effort to finally be freed. When the accused allowed her to go back

    to her house to get her things for their planned elopement, she managed to ask for help from the police. The accused

    was then arrested. The trial court charged him for a special complex of robbery with rape.

    Issue:

    Whether or not the rape that was committed twice by the accused to the victim should be considered as

    aggravating circumstances.

    Held:

    The additional rapes that was committed by the accused should not be considered as aggravating

    circumstances. The Court observed that there was no law providing for the additional rape/s or homicide/s considering

    them as aggravating circumstances. Furthermore, Article 14 of the Revised Penal Code, Aggravating Circumstances,

    is an exclusive list which means that unless and until a law is passed regarding the additional rape/s as an aggravating

    circumstance, the Court must construe in favor of the offender. Therefore, the accused was rightfully charged with a

    special complex of robbery with rape with neither mitigating nor aggravating circumstances.

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