Tacloban shooting: Victim's mom wants separate detention for suspects

MANILA, Philippines – Jenelyn Badoria, the mother of 14-year-old Yancee Badoria Separa, who died during the Tacloban school shooting incident, demanded that the suspects be placed in a different facility and not just in a shelter where minors in conflict with the law are cared for and rehabilitated.

Badoria expressed her calls at the Senate panel on women, children, family relations, and gender equality hearing on Wednesday.

“That child, he killed, he killed a person. So what? Is he just going to a shelter? Huh? So there should be a facility that is worthy of them, they should also feel the pain,” the impassioned mother told the panel.

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“There should be facilities that fit them, not just a shelter,” an enraged Badoria reiterated.

She also hoped that the age of criminal liability would be lowered, citing supposed conversations of the suspects in which they claimed that they would not be punished for their crimes because of their age,

“If possible, lower the age at which one can be charged. Because the person who shot my son said he has no criminal liability. So how is that?” Badoria asked.

On the day of the incident, Badoria did not find out that Yancee was shot in the chaos until the latter was declared dead on-the-spot.

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Before she passed away, Yancee captured what is now a viral video of the incident.

Yancee was, in her mother’s words, a quiet and friendly person. She was also not quarrelsome, Badoria said.

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The teenage suspects, who were also Yancee’s schoolmates, are currently under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. /mr

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