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Dec 19, 2001 criminal-law rape consummated-rape revised-penal-code supreme-court

Slightest Penetration Consummated Rape Defined in Philippine Law

Philippine Supreme Court clarifies that slightest penetration of the labia consummates rape, even without hymenal laceration or full entry.