Juvenile justice law overhaul pushed
Senator Erwin Tulfo announced plans to convene a multisectoral meeting to review the nation’s juvenile justice laws, proposing that minors who commit serious…
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Senator Erwin Tulfo announced plans to convene a multisectoral meeting to review the nation’s juvenile justice laws, proposing that minors who commit serious…
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Today’s generation is the first to be raised on smartphones, algorithm-driven social media, online gaming, endless streams of violent content and constant…
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PALO, Leyte — Youth offenders admitted to the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth in Tanauan, Leyte have reportedly been escaping from the facility at…
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The 15-year-old suspect in the Tacloban school shooting will undergo preliminary investigation after prosecutors completed inquest proceedings on three counts…
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The Tacloban tragedy reveals that the current law treats juveniles as a monolith, ignoring how online echo chambers, radicalization, and ready access to…
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How that must burn, Rod. How it must eat you alive in whatever dark corner they’ve stuck you. You were so close. Fifteen.
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In the heels of the gruesome killing that happened inside a high school in Tacloban City, a supposed second home of learners, a question was raised: What is…
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A Senate panel will begin reviewing the Juvenile Justice Act (RA 9344) following widespread clamor to amend the two-decade-old law because of growing cases of…
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said the two teenagers implicated in the fatal school shooting in Tacloban City are now under the…
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A 15-year-old boy was turned over to social welfare authorities after a video captured him injuring a gasoline station attendant with a broken bottle in the…
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Data collected by the PNP show that children in conflict with the law account for only 1.72 percent of offenses committed in the country and that most of these…
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The law was crafted with compassion, recognizing that children are not yet fully formed.
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Do we now all truly, sincerely believe that children as young as 10-years-old are monsters born to commit crimes, even casually kill? Where did that monstrous…
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Lowering the age of criminal responsibility may satisfy a public desire for a stronger response, but it does little to address the conditions that allowed the…
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He said the Tacloban shooting, involving 14- and 15-year-old students, exposed weaknesses in the current law.
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The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) on Thursday rejected claims that the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act gives minors a free pass to commit…
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Criminal complaints have been filed against the 15-year-old student in connection with the shooting at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City that left…
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Rather than viewing troubled youth through a punitive lens, we should consider how we can support them in overcoming their challenges.
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