ADVERTISEMENTREAD: A lot of work needed on ‘criminal age’ issueMeanwhile, only 20 percent of Filipinos favored lowering the minimum age of criminal liability to 12 years and only 9 percent said it should be 9 years old. The bill seeking to lower the minimum age of criminal liability is pending before the House committee on justice. READ: UNICEF: Lowering criminal liability age harms kids’ well-beingYu said she just might reconsider her position if she would be convinced by the justice committee to further lower the minimum age of criminal liability to nine years old. (Personally, instead of lowering the age of criminal liability, let’s put a heavier penalty on the parents and those who used the children.) READ: ‘Lowering criminal liability age leads youth to negative path’“Dapat yung parusa, nasa magulang.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 08, 2017 06:22 UTC