Child protection advocates are making a last ditch call on lawmakers to preserve the country’s gains in advancing children’s rights by opposing moves to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
A harmless comment on the social network Facebook has cost the life of a 13-year old boy in El Salvador town in Misamis Oriental.
A jobless man ended up behind bars in Quezon City after he allegedly kept his teenaged lover away from her family for nearly two weeks.
Seven victims of human trafficking, six of whom were minors, have been rescued by authorities in remote towns in Quirino and Isabela provinces, police said Tuesday.
A teacher and his brothers were arrested after beating a 17-year-old boy on Saturday night in Marikina City.
Five persons, three from Lapu-Lapu City, were arrested for allegedly recruiting a 16-year-old girl and 20-year-old woman to work in a bar. Police identified the suspects as Marilyn Besolis, 32; Mirasol Aquino, 35; Carmelita Gunido, 43, all residents of barangay Looc, Lapu-Lapu. The alleged cohorts were identified as Ronald Panuncio, 46, and Reynaldo [...]
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Wednesday opposed the proposal to lower the minimum age for criminal liability for minors, saying that the public disagrees with this as seen in the results of an online poll by the House of Representatives.
The government military on Thursday condemned the communist New People’s Army for recruiting minors, following the surrender of a wounded, 17-year-old guerrilla in Northern Mindanao.
Two minors allegedly involved in an attack the other day on a drunken man in Quezon City were arrested and charged before the city prosecutor’s office, a police investigator said Wednesday.
Three of the four teenagers arrested for possession of high-powered firearms the other day have been released and were turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) because they are minors.
LOCAL legislators were asked to enact an ordinance that would prohibit the reopening of establishments that were ordered closed by the Department of Labor and Employment. Dole-7 Senior Labor and Employment Officer engineer Vicente Abordo pointed to karaoke bars that reopen with different names but under the same management. These night spots were shut down [...]
The 16-year-old boy who was allegedly shot inside a mall in Pampanga on Tuesday by his 13-year-old companion has also died, according to television reports on Wednesday night.
For two police officials keeping watch over a portion of Edsa in Makati City, constant vigilance is a must. Chief Inspectors Celerino Sacro and McVernon Manera of the Makati Police Station conceded that if their men were to let down their guard, there would be more cases of children who rob people whose vehicles are [...]
