Her gravestone at Olongapo, north-west of Manila, states that Rosario was just 11 years old when she died in 1987.īut the lack of a birth certificate - or any proof of her age - was one factor that led the court to acquit the man originally charged and convicted of rape with homicide in a country where the age of consent for sex is 12. The internal injuries she received from an alleged rape caused a severe infection in her cervix that eventually led to her death in a Philippines hospital. Rosario Baluyot took seven months to die.
