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Sending children to prison would perpetuate injustice and child abuse, opposition lawmakers said amid a proposal to lower the age of criminal liability to 10 years old.Neophyte lawmakers Chel Diokno of Akbayan party-list and Renee Co of Kabataan party-list, both lawyers, made the warning in response to the proposal made by Senator Robin Padilla .“Walang batang kusang papatay ng kapwa tao dahil lang protektado siya sa pagkakulong.
Diokno backed Co, saying that the existing Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, which increased the age of criminal liability from 9 to 15 years old, is not a free pass for children to commit crime.The law, he said, provides that “a child aged 15 years old or below at the time of the commission of the offense is exempted from criminal liability, provided that the child is subjected to an intervention program also provided under the same law.
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