Some 64 people who used drugs (PWUDs) graduated from the rehabilitation program of the Navotas City local government on Monday, April 17. Bidahan, a community-based drug rehabilitation program (CBDRP), conducted a year-long treatment procedure for PWUDs that included a six-month aftercare after the...
ILOILO CITY – Police have apprehended in Pavia, Iloilo a pastor wanted for alleged acts of lasciviousness on children in Manapla, Negros Occidental. The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 did not identify the 32-year-old suspect ranked as the most wanted person in Western Visayas. The suspect was...
LAGAWE, Ifugao – The Ifugao Provincial Police Office nabbed the Cordillera region’s Top 5 most wanted person during the implementation of a warrant of arrest in Barangay Santa Maria, Alfonso Lista, Ifugao on Good Friday. Ifugao police chief Col. Davy Limmong identified the suspect as Vergel...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- Pope Francis on Saturday extended a 2019 law to fight sexual abuse in the Church by making lay Catholic leaders responsible for acts committed under their watch in Vatican-approved bodies. A letter, directly sent by the pontiff, also said that vulnerable adults can be...
TACLOBAN CITY – A woman received two life sentences for sexually abusing minors, including her daughter, in exchange for money from online sex offenders. The Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte found the accused guilty of qualified trafficking, child abuse, and...
The House Committee on Basic Education and Culture on Monday, March 13, formed a technical working group (TWG) to consolidate House Bills (HBs) 346, 549, and 6940, which would provide protection for teachers from wrongful allegations of child abuse. The three bills—Institutionalizing support...
Davao City 1st district Repres Paolo Duterte has moved to criminalize the act of exploiting, neglecting, or abusing the elderly. (Unsplash) For this purpose, Duterte penned and filed House Bill (HB) No.4696, or the proposed Anti-Elder Abuse Act. If enacted, the measure will institutionalize...
The prime mover of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) in Congress, House Speaker Martin Romualdez, has explained to businessmen how the misuse or abuse of the proposed Philippine sovereign wealth fund (SWF) will be avoided. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Romualdez did so in a...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, February 14 reiterated his call for the government to launch a stronger crackdown on various forms of child trafficking, including the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). Gatchalian made the call as the National Awareness Week on the...
JOJO RINOZA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN As the country commemorates the National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, the Department of Education (DepEd) underscored the urgent need to protect learners from all possible forms of abuse. “Atin pang mas...
BAGUIO CITY – The city government received the 2022 National Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance and the 2021 Digital Governance Audit awards during the Regional Awarding of Best Performing LGUs-cum-Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan (BIDA) Caravan on Wednesday, Feb. 8. The program was organized by...
Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday, February 7 urged the government to act with dispatch on the rising pregnancies among very young girls and teenagers, noting that majority of the registered adolescent live births involved men who are older than the girls. Citing data from the Philippine Statistics...
