Archive for March, 2008

Hazardous child labor

by Ramon Mabutas Jr.
from The Manila Times

QUERY:

Last year, my thirteen-year-old daughter left for the capital-town of our province to look for work in order to pursue her studies. Because she was pretty she was hired as a guest relations officer…

Manila gang trains children to be thieves

by Nestor Etolle
from The Philippine Star

Children as young as seven years old are being trained and used by a pickpocket gang operating in Divisoria and Quiapo to escape arrest and prosecution, the Manila Police District said yesterday.

Policemen arrested two children…