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Sunday, March 11, 2018
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NOW that the congressional bicameral conference committee has consolidated the Senate and House bills which would prohibit and provide harsher penalties against hazing as well as attempts at cover-up, we are very hopeful of its approval into law at the soonest possible time.
This early, it would be wise for the Department of the Interior and Local Government, in anticipation of the approval of the new anti-hazing law, to prepare the implementing mechanisms for the strict monitoring and enforcement of it at the local government level, especially in the barangays.
Out-of-school youth and students in junior high school and senior high school are especially prone to invites from frats and gangs. Barangay and school principals must work together and apply their child protection policies effectively and pro-actively. They must be on the alert against frats and gangs that get involved in illegal drugs or resort to hold-ups of taxis and jeepneys as initiation rites for neophytes. Neighborhood frats and gangs can also be used by organized crime engaged in human trafficking, illegal drugs, and prostitution of children and teenagers.
Crime syndicates are well aware of the minimum age of criminal responsibility stated in the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006. The link between neighborhood frats and gangs and juvenile crime is a clear and present danger to our communities.
Effective implementation of the imminent anti-hazing law will be another way for government to reduce crime near our schools, on the streets and close to our homes.
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