LOOK: CHR slams Tanauan City local government for making teen do “walk of shame”

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) slammed the local government of Tanauan City in Batangas for making a teen accused of stealing plastics was made to take the “Walk of Shame” around the city’s public market.

Early this week, a 17-year-old boy was made to walk around the city with cardboard signs plastered on both sides of his shirt that read, “Ako’y magnanakaw wag tularan (I’m a thief do not imitate me). The suspect, being a minor, was placed under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

InterAksyon has quoted CHR spokesperson Atty. Jackie de Guia as saying “We urge the local government of Tanauan to ensure that the rights of suspected offenders are upheld considering their right to be presumed innocent and their right to due process.”

Perci Cendaña, chairman of National Youth Commission’s Committee on Social Inclusion and Equity said in a separate statement that the Tanauan City government violated the fundamental rights of the boy.

“What they made the boy do is not only inhumane, it is also illegal as it is a violation of the fundamental rights of young people and tantamount to abuse,” Cendaña said as he called the incident as a “grave injustice especially since the victim was a minor.”

source: kickerdaily