Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 05:52:28 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte wants parents of children in conflict with the law to also be punished for neglecting their offsprings, Malacañang said Thursday.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 04:57:09 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—The measure seeking to lower the minimum age of criminal liability from 15 to 12 years old will be properly debated and scrutinized in the upper chamber, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Thursday.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:42:16 +0000
The Duterte administration focuses on criminalizing children to cover up its failure to arrest drug lords and syndicates, the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) said on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:37:11 +0000
As debates on lowering the age of criminal liability continue, the public urged Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray. to speak up
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:17:35 +0000
While maintaining he supports lowering the age of criminal liability in the country, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde admitted on Wednesday that doing so would require careful study.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:12:10 +0000
The country will be “sliding downwards” and going against scientific data if it lowers the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR), opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros said Tuesday.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:00:37 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Two senators are more inclined to support the lowering of the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) to 12 years old, instead of 9.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 04:16:47 +0000
Lowering the age of criminal liability to nine years old age was tantamount to creating “kindergarten prisons” in the country.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:16:22 +0000
Malacañang said Monday parents of children involved in illegal activities should also be held accountable.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:47:34 +0000
The Commission on Human Rights has urged government to instead address “conditions that push children” to do crime than incancerate them.
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