“A law authored by opposition vice presidential candidate Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan allows minors to go scot-free even after committing crimes such as robbery with murder, rape with murder, and rape.”
What Vera Files found
Under Republic Act No. 9344, or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act -- enacted in 2006 and amended in 2013 -- youth offenders aged 15 to 18 who were proven to have committed crimes with “discernment” may be held criminally liable and “subjected to appropriate proceedings.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte (President) made this claim around 10 January 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 14 January 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/5NJ5dd4mXiI
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/A9E3-XE4U
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.