Practice question
Under current RA 9344 section 6, what is the criminal-liability rule for a child who was exactly fifteen years old at the time of the act?
- Criminally liable whenever the act is serious
- Exempt from criminal liability, subject to the applicable intervention framework
- Automatically sentenced as an adult
- Exempt only if no property was damaged
- Criminally liable merely because the child has reached the fifteenth birthday
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2006/ra_9344_2006.html — RA 9344, Titles I, IV and VII, especially sections 6, 20, 57 and 60–61, read with RA 10630.
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2013/ra_10630_2013.html — sections 3, 6 and 11, amended age rule, intervention and IJISC provisions, qualified parental civil liability and local-ordinance protections.
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