A panel at the House of Representatives has rejected the proposal of administration lawmakers led by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez to lower the minimum age of criminal liability from 15 to 9 years old.

The measure that seeks to detain children who committed a crime was instead amended by the House Justice Sub Committee on Correctional Reforms to provide mandatory government intervention for children in conflict with the law aged nine to 14 years old, a provision absent in the existing Juvenile Justice and Welfare of Children law which prevents authorities from detaining children.

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