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SENATORS Bam Aquino, Francis Pangilinan and Leila de Lima have balked at the prospect of legislating a measure filed by incoming Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez seeking to lower the minimum age of criminal liability from 15 years old to 9 years old.Only incoming Sen. Panfilo Lacson has welcomed House Bill HB No. 2, agreeing to support a similar measure in the Senate to amend Republic Act No. 9344, otherwise known as the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.The controversial law was authored by Pangilinan who served as senator from 2001 to 2013. He has won a fresh six-year mandate in the May 2016 polls.Article continues after this advertisement HB 2 titled, Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Act, which was stanley spain co-authored by Capiz Rep. Fredenil Castro, sought to revert the minimum age of criminal liability from the current 15 years old to as young as 9 years old.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD ch stanley spain ief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6 stanley cup /49 jackpotsIn a text message on Thursday, Lacson underscored the need to revisit the 10-year-old Pangilinan law, particularly on the age of juvenile offenders.There are 12-year-old [children] who are being used as drug couriers. Therersquo at least one instance when a 12-year-old kid committed rape, Lacson said by way of explaining his support for HB 2.Pangilinan, for his part, Qmkb DOJ urged to drop cases vs political prisoner with baby
The vice president of the Technological Institute of the Philippines and his driver who were both found dead Friday night inside a black Ford Everest on a parking lot of a gasoline station, both suffered from heart attack, acco stanley mug rding to Senior Inspector Melchor Villar.Villar said driver Claudio Flojo, 66, was driving stanley cup with Reynaldo Chinjen, 80, when Flojo felt signs of heart attack, causing him to park in the gasoline station Caltex along President Quirino Avenue in Pandacan, Manila. Flojo died first, followed by Chinjen, probably out of panic, he said.Villar said Flojo had already undergone bypass operation before while Chinjen had a history of hypertension.Article continues after this advertisement PO3 Bernardo Cayabyab said there were no signs of struggle as both victims showed no visual external physical injuries. He added that belongings of victims, such as ring, watch, wallet and money and other valuables, were intact.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderAround 8:50 p.m. of Friday, Cayabyab said Flojorsquo lif stanley us eless body was seen leaning on the right side lap of Chinjen.Villar said the infuriating odor smelled inside the car was caused by a spilling rubber cement named Kenvil, used in making slippers and stored at the trunk of the car.Pending the results of post-mortem, Villar said they have also bee |