Effectivity of The Current Legal System in Protecting The Rights of Children
Effectivity of The Current Legal System in Protecting The Rights of Children
Effectivity of The Current Legal System in Protecting The Rights of Children
When children are in conflict with the laws, we have RA 9344 that will
help them to be rehabilitated. They are not called as “accused” in
ordinary legal term, instead, they are considered as “children in conflict
with the laws”, so that their reputation in the society will not be
tarnished.
On the same way, children who are victims of abuses sought their
protection from RA 7610. Under this law, the term “child abuse”
encompasses physical, psychological, sexual, emotional and economic
kinds of abuses.
For example, in cases when the rape victim is a child, the law
guarantees that capital punishment shall be meted out to the offender.