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Batas Mauricio

TRISHA Gubaton, a 17-year old student, appears to have been robbed of her capacity to enroll for the second semester of School Year 2015-2016, and, if police are to be believed, she has no one else to blame but former Sen. Francis Pangilinan, who is running as senator once more under the Liberal Party.

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Why is this so? Well, Trisha lost her bag containing her enrollment money of P20,000 and iPhone 6 worth P46,000 to a four or five-year old girl who, video footages later showed, was used by a man and a woman, apparently the girl’s parents, to steal Trisha’s bag inside a fast food restaurant in Cebu in Nov. 3.

Senior Insp. Rolito Supatan said the little girl was used by a syndicate that employs children because minors cannot be sent to jail, under a law authored by Pangilinan. And why can’t minors be sent to jail even if they commit crimes?

This is because of the Juvenile Justice Law, a law authored by former senator Pangilinan, that not only prohibits, but also severely penalizes any policeman or any other government official or private person arresting minors even if they are caught committing even the most heinous crimes.

This law of Pangilinan has in fact sown terror in the hearts and minds not only of the authorities in many other areas of the Philippines. Consequently, no policeman or even barangay official would now touch children criminals with a 10-foot pole, for fear of being criminally and administratively charged under Pangilinan’s law.

In fact, I was told that regular riots and criminality among older people have gone passé in one place. They have been replaced with riots and criminality among children who proverbially have not even discarded their baby fat.

If Pangilinan is not going to do anything about this, I am sure his ambition to return to the Senate in 2016 is in great peril. Everywhere I have been to in the Philippines, from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, people are complaining against his law, saying that the law has removed the tag, “hope of the motherland,” from the Filipino youth.

Now, because of Pangilinan’s law, the perception is that the youth has become the curse of the fatherland. And people are very much aware that Pangilinan appears to be the culprit in this malady. He is in fact blamed 100% of the time for the criminality among Filipino children.

Indeed, Pangilinan’s law must be abrogated. For it has always been true: if we spare the rod, we spoil the child. If we spoil the child, he grows up to be ill-mannered, lacking in discipline, having no fear and love of God, and even of his own parents, making him a destructive menace to society as a whole. Pangilinan, with his law, has singlehandedly destroyed the Filipino youth!

E-mail: batasmauricio@yahoo.com

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