SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian wants to raise the age of sexual consent to 18, saying teenage mothers tend to be victims of sexual abuse.

The senator earlier filed Senate Bill 739 raising the age of sexual consent to 18. He deplored that the age of consent in the Philippines is 12 years old, the lowest in Asia and the second lowest in the world.

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