{"id":3728,"date":"2015-05-07T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:00:45","slug":"14yo-boy-rapist-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"14yo Boy-rapist is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy has gotten off scot free after raping an eight-year-old girl in Bicol, taunting the victim\u2019s parents. For obvious reasons, his photo cannot be shown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks but no thanks to former Senator Francis \u201cKiko\u201d Pangilinan who sponsored the law that coddles minors who run afoul of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Pangilinan law, a minor who is 15 years old or younger cannot go to jail for any criminal offense he commits, no matter how grave it is.<\/p>\n<p>The police have been harping against that law, along with workers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, but they can\u2019t do anything but comply with its directive: Release the offending minors to their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Barangay officials where the 14-year-old rapist lives are worried that he might rape other girls again because he goes around the village, seemingly on the prowl for another victim.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s parents who are supposed to keep him on a leash, in a manner of speaking, let him be.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of young girls are worried that their child may be the boy\u2019s next victim.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"385\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The eight-year-old victim has moved to another province because her assailant remains on the loose.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After being raped, she now has to endure being separated from her parents who remain in Bicol region.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, but no thanks to Sen. Kiko Pangilinan who authored the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong> (Mon Tulfo in INQ.net)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy has gotten off scot free after raping an eight-year-old girl in Bicol, taunting the victim\u2019s parents. For obvious reasons, his photo cannot be shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}