(UPDATES) A DAVAO court has convicted former Bayan Muna congressman Satur Ocampo and House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro, and 11 others of violating a law that protects children from abuse, exploitation and discrimination, sentencing them to up to six years in prison.

'This is a clear miscarriage of justice, and we will strongly question this decision in all venues possible,' Ocampo and Castro said in a joint statement, after the Tagum City Regional Trial Court Branch 2 convicted them of violating Republic Act. 7610, which punishes a person if he or she is found to have been responsible for conditions prejudicial to a child's development.