Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 21:16:56 +0000
Several senators on Wednesday expressed concern over the decision of the Duterte administration to add P1 billion to the budget
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:16:52 +0000
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines — A 12-year-old boy admitted stabbing to death a pregnant woman and her daughter supposedly over P100 in Lubao town, Pampanga province, on Sunday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:57:29 +0000
Jayson was roused from sleep one early morning at Bahay Pag-asa, a local government child care center in this town in Rizal province. “Your brother’s here,” he was told.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:26:11 +0000
An ecumenical coalition and a group of concerned economists on Tuesday said legislators planning to lower the age of criminal responsibility were missing their purported target in the fight against crime by punishing children.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:10:22 +0000
Sen. Risa Hontiveros is happy about the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, which shows that majority of Filipinos agree that the minimum age for criminal responsiblity (MACR) should be 15 years old.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:03:18 +0000
Small, scrawny and looking younger than his 14 years, Janmark (not his real name) is one of several children in conflict with the law staying at the two-room Bahay Pag-asa in Mandaluyong City. He ended up there after he was busted for using marijuana earlier this month. Already, Janmark has a couple of bruises to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:27:24 +0000
The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act must be given a chance to realize its full potential before it is amended, according to Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:40:40 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 12 years old instead of 9 as earlier proposed by members of the House of Representatives was acceptable to him.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:32:43 +0000
The country’s main association of pediatricians on Wednesday joined human rights and child welfare groups in opposing the bill that would lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 years old.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:23:12 +0000
Members of the House of Representatives and senators have started tackling separate versions of a controversial measure to amend a juvenile law to lower the age of criminal responsibility for children from the current 15 years old before their current terms end in June.
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