Little match children

According to studies, approximately more than a quarter of children in China are victims of physical abuse. Those who are taken for granted are mostly susceptible to physical damage especially those who are staying in residential school institutions because some elders who might defend them are apart from them.

These children who are taken for granted can be suspects or victims of the crime. Recently this year, a prostitution enclosure in Macao was defeated. Teenage crimes are increasing in China which may well in part since ignored children are also increasing. Those young individuals who are involved in crimes are made up of two-thirds of Chinese children who came from rural areas in 2010. When they are caught, most of the ignored or migrant children are immediately brought in prison since the courts hesitant to give trial because they don’t have guardians. The migrant workers in Shanghai get probation in only fifteen percent of cases unlike with 63 percent of cases engaging teenage crimes in the region.

Considering the damage that left behind affect to the health of children, education and mental growth, it’s easy to picture out that there is negative effects not only to those young individuals but also to the society. The occurrence is efficiently recent that there is limited convincing proof of higher crimes, anti-social response and others. In addition to the suffering of the ignored ones by judging those young individuals to be criminals would evidently add injustice to their suffering.

B.Yang

Cyber-bullying via social media seen as crime

PICKING on someone on Facebook may soon become illegal.

A new bill has been filed at the Congress describing and punishing “cyber-bullying,” or the illegal act of posting offensive or scornfully abusive messages in the Internet against the victim.

Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. said that cyber bullying would refer to “acts of cruelty committed using the Internet or any form of electronic media or technology that has the effect of stripping one’s dignity or causing reasonable fear or physical or emotional harm.”

Based on the House Bill 5718, or the proposed “Anti Cyber-Bullying Act of 2015,” oppressor of cyber-crime will have a penalty of fines ranging from 50,000 to P100,000 pesos, or a jail term imprisonment between six months and six years preference of the court.

The outcome of this is that, “Internet bashing” has become manifestations of human intellectual achievement among the Internet users and even released issues that include conflict and violence.

The system gives that the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) shall form together the important rules and regulations within 90 days of passage.

D. Yap