Lawbreakers
- Written by Dinah S. Ventura
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Another young man has lost his life undergoing a “rite of passage” that has been deemed unlawful.Marc Andrei Marcos, law student, in joining a law school fraternity, went through an initiation process that, in the end, took rather than gave him a future.
His family grieves, concerned citizens are righteously indignant, and the authorities are in the thick of investigations. The news reveals that some 20 individuals may be involved in the death of young Marcos.
Government officials have reiterated that hazing is against the law. “It is a heinous crime under the law. In fact, it is non-bailable,” said Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, officer in charge of the Department of Justice (DoJ), in a Daily Tribune report last Aug. 2.
For this non-bailable offense, students of the law are, ironically, risking their future in order to help assure themselves of a future..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2493-lawbreakers
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