Topic: Children in Conflict with the Law
Preda Opens Petition to Philippine Senators
May 28, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Dear friends, The Philippine House of Representatives has passed a law amending Republic Act 9344 reducing the age of criminal liability to 12 year old. The children even if only accused can be treated as criminals and be jailed with adults until they can prove they are minors. Many are abandoned street kids and cant [...]
Read More...Why Blame Children for Adult Crime?
May 25, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
What level of callous cruelty does it take to put children as young as six or twelve-year-old behind bars? That is the way it was in the Philippines until the passing of the Juvenile Justice Welfare Bill (RA 9344) in 2006.
Read More...Jailing kids no answer to rising criminality, says DSWD exec
May 23, 2012 · By Leila B. Salaverria, Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippines will not solve the problem of rising criminality by sending more children to jail., The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) has opposed a House bill seeking to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility to over 12 years old.
Read More...The Walk to Freedom and Dignity
April 19, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The day he walked to freedom was a happy day in the life of fourteen-year-old Miguel. For months he had been detained in the Parañaque jail, accused of stealing a pair of flip-flops, worth no more than 50 cents. He was, at first locked in an overcrowded cell that was a living hell of squashed [...]
Read More...Tatort-Verein visits Preda Center
April 18, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The support agency Tatort-Verein from Cologne, came to visit also this March 2012. The famous Cologne based actor Klaus J. Behrendt in the popular TV series Tatort, playing the part of the detective commissioner alongside Dietmar Bar visited the Preda…
Read More...German Parliamentary Visit at Preda
April 17, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The jail rescue project of Preda for youth in conflict with the law is attracting the attention and the support of distinguished visitors from Germany. Father Shay Cullen is being invited to make a presentation at the German Parliament this 2012…
Read More...1.7M kids call Metro slums home
February 28, 2012 · By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Barely into his teens, “Dennis” used to retrieve stray balls from a golf course for a fee of P5 each.
That was before he and his fellow street urchins realized that Quezon City was one big quarry for anyone who had their youthful speed and daring.
Child Protection is Still a Low Priority
October 15, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Trafficking of street children for sexual exploitation is a heinous crime in most countries but flourishes nevertheless and it is difficult to get accurate figures since most of it is done in secret. However, estimates say that over 2 million are trafficked in Asia every year. Police and social services are inadequately trained, have low [...]
Read More...Kids Still Jailed in Manila – PREDA
December 31, 2007 · By Rene Q. Bas
First of two parts Children are still jailed in Manila—contrary to what the city jail and social welfare officials told The Manila Times in an earlier report. “True, the kids are not in the city jail. But they are jailed in two other buildings in a compound just a five-minute walk away from city hall,” [...]
Read More...Preda Newsletter October 2005
October 3, 2005 ·
Dear friends and defenders of children’s rights, I write to thank all of you who have contributed generously to the work of saving and protecting children. I haven’t been able to write a frequently as before because the work is expanding rapidly. We have many significant successes in saving children from abusive situations and those [...]
Read More...NEWSLETTER September-October 2004
October 3, 2004 ·
Dear friends, defenders of children, It’s been a while since you received a newsletter from us at PREDA. We have to reduce costs. We need the money for more children being released from the prisons by the courts and being sent to us. We cannot refuse them. We are as busy as ever helping the [...]
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