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Situation of

Children in Conflictwith the Law

Alicia R. BalaUndersecretary, DSWD

Chairperson, Juvenile Justice & Welfare

Council

Multi-Stakeholders Summit on Juvenile Justice

September 13, 2007, Davao City


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Republic Act 9344 or the Juvenile

Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 refersto a CICL as a child who is alleged as,accused of, or adjudged as, havingcommitted an offense, under 18

years of age.

Who is a Child inConflict with the Law


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Profile of Filipino CICL

Mostly male Ages 14-17 years

159 CICL committed their offenses whenthey were below 15 years old and the

youngest was a 9 year old boy

Elementary school level

Belong to large and low earning family

Some were into drugs and some wereunder the influenced of alcohol

Source: UNICEF/CWC


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Factors that Contributeto Juvenile Delinquency

Poverty

Dysfunctional family

Peer pressure

Lack of education or low educationalattainment


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TOTAL CICL POPULATION AS REPORTED BY AGENCIES

July 30, 2007

REG DSWD BJMP PRO PROVL

JAIL

PPO

/

CPO

YOUTH

HOMESTOTAL

I 166 40 48 0 254

II 50 19 20 5 94

III 244 4 31 0 279

IV-A 200 80 57 0 337

IV-B 15 7 12 24 58

V 21 24 12 0 57

VI 52 31 20 2 24 129


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VII 179 197 288 2 98 764

VIII 135 16 18 0 169

IX 134 64 143 0 341

X 253 100 76 0 429

XI 271 24 78 0 373


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XII 239 33 69 11 86 438

NCR 75 312 34 354 775

CAR 17 39 34 0 16 106

CARAGA 19 23 57 0 13 112

ARMM 8 4 0 12

BUCOR 339

Total 2070 1021 1001 44 13 578 5066


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REGION NO OF

CICL

DETAINED

I 276 179

II 123 61

III 257 191

IV-A 418 309

IV-B 251 158

V 89 78

VI 416 257

VII 456 341VIII 174 2

NO OF CICL DETAINED

254 73

94 26

279 32

337

111

58 19

57 36

129 31

764 384

Table 2: As of July 2007Table 1: As of Dec 2006


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IX 412 302

X 158 83

XI 478 290

XII 518 377

CARAGA 102 62

CAR 102 37

ARMM 23 23

341 200

429 116

373 89

438 88

112 69

106 53

12 10


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NCR 155 69 775 179

BUCOR 355 355 339 339

BJMP

National

162 162

CRADLE 179 179 148 148

MOLAVE

(QC)

103 92

MYRC(Manila)

80 113

PASAY Youth

Home

10 53


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Operation

Second

Chance(Cebu City)

66

NGOS (PREDA,

Balay

Pasilungan,Marcellin,

CFSPI,

Virlanie,

ASAP, Bahay

Pag-asa)

254

TOTAL 5297 3176 5066 2030


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Fast Facts

As of July 2007, there are 5066 CICL in thecountry, 164 are females and 4,902 are malesor 96.76%

40.86% are under the DSWD and the rest areunder the care either of BJMP (20.15%),PNP (19.76%), Bucor (6.69%) LGUs (7.24%),NGOs (4.88%) and under jurisdiction of thecourts (0.26%)

NCR has the highest rate of CICL incidencefollowed by Region VII,Region XII, Region X &Region IV-A


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Fast Facts

ARMM has the lowest incidence while

Batanes is the only province which has

no recorded CICL Longest serving national inmate is now

41 years old and detained at Sablayan

Prison and Penal Farm (he was 17 yrsold when he committed the offense)


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BUCOR, BJMP AND PNP

Top 5 Offenses Committed

Theft-691 Violation of RA 9165- 94 Robbery-236

Rape 231

Murder-106


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Fast Facts

Thirty six minors have been meted thedeath penalty since 1994.

2 are now free: 1 acquitted and1 was released

28 in NBP 3 in MMDJ 1 in CIW 2 in Iwahig


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Public Attorneys Office

Cases handled:

End of 2006- 10,988 cases

1st sem 2007 3,259 cases

Total terminated 3,388 cases Total number of pending cases 10,859


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Fast Facts

There are 11 Regional RehabilitationCenters for Youth operated by DSWD

BJMP partnered w/ DSWD-NCR in the

operation of CRADLE, which serves CICL,in Taguig.

1,132 jails under BJMP, only 196 have

separate facilities for CICL


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Nineteen facilities have been set up by LGUs,

four of which are youth detention center

Fast Facts

Molave MYRC Pasay Youth Home

Operation SecondChance

There are 43 facilities managed by non-government organizations (NGOs) and 22 ofwhich are providing residential shelter to CICL.21 are purely community based, 3 are bothcommunity and residential facilities


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Remember...

Minority is the reason why Children

cannot Work, Marry, Enter Into

Contract and Join Military Combat


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Even when you dislike a

Childs behavior, never

suggest that you dislike

that Child Save the Children


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Thank you

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