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Rioflorido, Lea Angelica R
Rioflorido, Lea Angelica R
There are various news and reports that commissions of heinous crimes were
allegedly committed by Children below Fifteen years of age in order not to be entitled to
a criminal responsibility guaranteed by RA 9344. Thus, HB 6052 was created in order to
amend RA 9344 known as the juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.
However, RA 9344 should NOT be amended.
1. IT WEAKENS AN EFFORT TO BUILD A CHILD-FRIENDLY JUSTICE
SYSTEM.
The 1987 Constitution guarantee the vital role of the Children. Under Article 2
Section 13,
The State recognizes the vital role of the youth in
nation-building and shall promote and protect their physical,
moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social-well being. It shall
inculcate in the youth patriotism and nationalism, and
encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs.
Our constitution uplift the importance of the youth or the children, naturally
they are those aging from eighteen years old or below. However, various
reports say that ages 15 years old and below committed crimes. Thus, they
come up with the idea of amending RA 9344, wherein they wish to uplift the
age of criminal responsibility, those ages 15 and below but not more than 12
will not be exempt from criminal responsibility. Do this children be punished,
blame and be responsible to that criminal act?
Problems of rising criminality cannot be fixed by simply sending our
children to jail. Children in conflict with the law should not be treated by the