Tag: Senate proposal

Duterte says he prefers minimum age of criminal liability pegged at 9; But I’m “comfortable” with 12, he says

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, Jan. 23, said he would have wanted the minimum age of criminal responsibility pegged at nine, but was “comfortable” with it being pegged at 12 nonetheless. According to Duterte, who spoke to reporters in Pasay, if the minimum age of criminal responsibility was pegged at nine years old, the children’s parents would be “conscious of the criminal accountability already.” “Yun ang original law bago pinakiilaman ni (Senator […]