![A nine-year old boy, arrested for sleeping in the street, joins other children in a Bahay Pagasa detention center in Manila, the same type of facility the Philippine government plans to use under a proposed new law that would lower the age of criminal r](/sites/default/files/multimedia_images_2019/201902asia_philippines_children2.jpg)
A nine-year-old boy, arrested for sleeping in the street, joins other children in a Bahay Pagasa detention center in Manila, the same type of facility the Philippine government plans to use under a proposed new law that would lower the age of criminal responsibility.
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