For generations, the rape and sexual abuse of children has been a regular practice of the human species mostly by men but frequently assisted and enabled by women, too. Philippine laws to justify it have been passed, mostly by men, by setting the age of consent for sexual acts as low as 12 years of age in the Philippines.

This is the lowest age of consent anywhere in the world and this must be changed and challenged. Politicians must be asked why they have left children as young as 12 vulnerable to sexual assault.