The problem with the "tun-og" or "hamog" boys is being blamed on RA 9344 (The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006).
Critics of the law argues that the minimum age of criminal responsibility is the reason why we have children in conflict with the law (CICL) who are being used by syndicates to proliferate crimes knowing that they will not be held criminally liable.
I beg to disagree. I think that is not the problem of the law. The problem is with the implementation of the law.
The problem of children being used by syndicates can be easily remedied. Proper police work can make these syndicates liable and abusive parents can be deprived of their parental authority if need be. Correct diversion programs will keep the CICL off the streets and away from the syndicates. Properly funded and effectively implemented intervention programs can and will restore our children to what they should be. Not thugs and hardened criminals but wide eyed hopes of the future.
These ideas are not mine to claim. They are actually a product of the Barangay Legal Education Seminar conducted by the UP Law Center the work shop that followed where the participants who came from the police, the barangay, the media and the social work office shared their ideas.
Law indeed does not work in a vacuum.
"Previously published in the Sarangani Journal" :0
I beg to disagree. I think that is not the problem of the law. The problem is with the implementation of the law.
The problem of children being used by syndicates can be easily remedied. Proper police work can make these syndicates liable and abusive parents can be deprived of their parental authority if need be. Correct diversion programs will keep the CICL off the streets and away from the syndicates. Properly funded and effectively implemented intervention programs can and will restore our children to what they should be. Not thugs and hardened criminals but wide eyed hopes of the future.
These ideas are not mine to claim. They are actually a product of the Barangay Legal Education Seminar conducted by the UP Law Center the work shop that followed where the participants who came from the police, the barangay, the media and the social work office shared their ideas.
Law indeed does not work in a vacuum.
"Previously published in the Sarangani Journal" :0
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