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Situation of Children in Conflict With The Law
Situation of Children in Conflict With The Law
Situation of Children in Conflict With The Law
Alicia R. Bala Undersecretary, DSWD Chairperson, Juvenile Justice & Welfare Council
159 CICL committed their offenses when they 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 were under the influenced of alcohol
Source: UNICEF/CWC
DSWD
BJMP
PRO
PROVL JAIL
TOTAL
40 19 4 80 7 24 31
48 20 31 57 12 12 20
0 5 0 0 24 0 2 24
VII VIII IX X XI
2 0 0 0 0
98
239 75 17 19
33 312 39 23 8
69 34 34 57 4
11
86 354
0 0 0 13
16
2070
1021
1001
44
13
578
5066
Table 1: As of Dec 2006 REGION I II III IV-A IV-B V VI VII VIII NO OF CICL 276 123 257 418 251 89 416 456 174 DETAINED 179 61 191 309 158 78 257 341 2
NO OF CICL 254
DETAINED 73
94
279 337 58 57 129 764
26
32 111 19 36 31 384
IX X
412 158
302 83
341 429
200 116
XI
XII CARAGA CAR ARMM
478
518 102 102 23
290
377 62 37 23
373
438 112 106 12
89
88 69 53 10
NCR
155
69
775
179
BUCOR
BJMP National CRADLE
355
162 179
355
162 179
339
339
148
148
MOLAVE (QC)
MYRC (Manila) PASAY Youth Home
103
80 10
92
113 53
66
254
TOTAL
5297
3176
5066
2030
Fast Facts
As of July 2007, there are 5066 CICL in the country, 164 are females and 4,902 are males or 96.76% 40.86% are under the DSWD and the rest are under the care either of BJMP (20.15%), PNP (19.76%), Bucor (6.69%) LGUs (7.24%), NGOs (4.88%) and under jurisdiction of the courts (0.26%) NCR has the highest rate of CICL incidence followed by Region VII,Region XII, Region X & Region IV-A
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 yrs old when he committed the offense)
Violation of RA 9165- 94
Rape 231
Murder-106
Fast Facts
Thirty six minors have been meted the death penalty since 1994. 2 are now free: 1 acquitted and 1 was released 28 in NBP 3 in MMDJ 1 in CIW 2 in Iwahig
Fast Facts
There are 11 Regional Rehabilitation Centers 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
Fast Facts
Nineteen facilities have been set up by LGUs, four of which are youth detention center Molave MYRC Pasay Youth Home Operation Second Chance There are 43 facilities managed by nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and 22 of which are providing residential shelter to CICL. 21 are purely community based, 3 are both community and residential facilities
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