Mike...

I agree with you: I was being facetious in describing the place where common
sense and the letter of the law meet.

But, I've noted this before (and Sgt. Mike made reference to it as well):
Filipino kids graduate from high school at the age of 14, can legally have sex
at 12... it certainly seems like this country considers a person of 15 (the age
of the jailbird's "girlfriend") to be largely and wholly "adult". Other than
(a) the possibility of prostitution, (b) the superficial/spurious Euroamerican
"proper age" values that we assign to the various stages of life -- which, as
already established, don't apply to The Philippines, and (c) generally bad
judgment, I'm curious as to what other things the fellow is guilty of.



--- In Expats-in-Cagayan-de-Oro@yahoogroups.com, Mike Belter <mikebelter@...>
wrote:
>
> I dunno but if I saw a guy getting it on with a 12 year old id be going to
jail for beating some sense into him. Age of consent isnt the only laws around
here. Hell the Family law is a night mare in itself. I dont care if I am here
and the age of consent is 16 i'll stick with what my old man said..."anything
under 18 will get you 25 years in jail" may not have been a 100% true but why
take the risk. As a foreigner of any nationality we are always prime target
number one so why dance with the laws?
>
> Mike B
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jil <jilwrinkle@...>
> To: Expats-in-Cagayan-de-Oro@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 2:05:05 PM
> Subject: [Expats-in-Cagayan-de-Oro] Re: Mike B's Post RE: Foreigner
Hanky-Panky with Kids in Mindanao
>
> I take it nobody has bothered to ask what the age of consent in The
Philippines is. It is 12. (http://www.avert. org/age-of- consent.htm). The only
way the guy would be in jail for being with a 15-year-old girl is if the girl
was asking for money... or the guy was offering to pay... then she would have to
be over 18.
>
> Otherwise, well folks, it's simple: Make sure your girlfriend or boyfriend is
at least 12 years old, and everything is hunky-dory as far as Filipinos are
concerned.