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PEOPLE VS TAGANNA
Respondent: Remegio TAGANNA
Private complainant: Maria C TAGANNA
(daughter)
CASE: 2 counts of crime
RTC, Br. 30, Basey Samar convicted
of 2 counts of rape and meted 2 death
sentences.
FACTS:
At midnight of June 15, 1997, Maria
Taganna, a 28y/o widow, was in bed
beside her
children and a younger
brother who were sound asleep.
Without prior notice, respondent Taganna
went up their house and entered the
room where they were sleeping, forthwith
lasciviously embraced Maria who could
not bear the loathsome of her fathers
advances. It did not take to long for his
fathers organ to enter her vagina. After
gratifying his lust, accused-appellant
walked away as if nothing happened.
Did not report it immediately because she
became pregnant. She also testified that
she had a miscarriage 3 months into her
pregnancy.
According to Maria, that incident was not
the first time she was molested by her
father, She was in her early teens when
her father first shattered her innocence.
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