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(Eagle News) — The Commission on Human Rights on Thursday, Jan. 24, expressed opposition to lowering the age of criminal liability anew even after the House of Representatives amended its original proposal pegging the minimum age of criminal liability at nine years old to 12 years old. The amended bill was approved by the House on second reading on Wednesday, Jan. 23. A bill that pegs the minimum age of criminal liability at 13 years […]
Minimum age of criminal responsibility now pegged at 12 years old in amended bill (Eagle News) — The House of Representatives has passed on second reading the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility. House justice committee chair Doy Leachon said the approved HB 8858, however, was amended to make the minimum age of criminal liability 12 years old. “More than majority of the members said na 12 na lang,” he said. Under the amended measure, […]
(Eagle News) — Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Wednesday, Jan. 23, said she pushed for the approval of the House bill seeking to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years old because it is what President Rodrigo Duterte himself wants. “From the beginning I said that my agenda is the President’s agenda,” she said. On Monday, Jan. 21, the House justice committee approved House Bill 8858. The Senate has a pending bill seeking […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Jan. 23, hit back at critics of the proposal to lower the age of criminal liability in the country, saying they are “either unaware (of) or ignore the reality” that criminals now use children in their illegal activities. “They simply have not read the provisions of the bill hence their opposition is based either on blissful ignorance or pretended misinformation,” he added, referring to the bill seeking to peg the […]
“She should address that to lawmakers, not to us,” Panelo says (Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday, Jan. 22, slammed United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard after she criticized the Philippines for a House of Representatives proposal to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years old. “She should address that to the lawmakers, not to us,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. The Philippines has a presidential system of government where the principle […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will not interfere in legislative work on the lowering of the age of criminal liability. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on Tuesday, Jan. 22, that what was clear was that the President wants the age of criminal liability lowered. “And we will leave that to the lawmakers…We will not question that,” Panelo said. The House justice panel on Monday, Jan. 21, approved the lowering of the age of criminal […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday, Jan. 22, said he would support the lowering of the criminal age of liability but on a number of conditions. In a statement, Lacson said the “youth offender” should have been “proven to have acted with discernment when he or she committed the crime, especially serious ones”; “sentencing” should be “suspended until the offender reaches the age of majority”; and there should be “enough and properly supervised […]
(Eagle News) — Several senators opposed the lowering of the age of criminal liability, with one saying an “iron fist ” was not the solution to the problem. Senator Kiko Pangilinan, author of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act that pegs the age of criminal liability at 15 years old, said in the first place, “poverty and hunger are the roots of the problems of these children.” “Additional pay and income, jobs, lower prices of goods, […]
(Eagle News)—-House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will move for the passage of a bill that will lower the age of criminal liability. Arroyo’s statement said House Justice Committee chair Salvador Leachon will hold a committee hearing on pending bills that seek the same on January 21 at 10 a.m. These include House Bill No. 505 filed by Tarlac Representative Victor Yap, which aims to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years old, and House Bill No. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (June 16) – The subject of mixed opinions and sparking much debate, the issue of the government’s proposition to lower the age of criminal liability in the Philippines from 15 years old to 9 years old is one of the most important proposals by the Duterte administration. Basically, the question boils down to: “Should kids as young as 9 years old be held accountable for their actions?” Many parents would agree that their child […]
