John Kenneth RubioCommunication III

PERSUASIVE SPEECH PLAN

Title: Let the Children SufferSpecific Speech Purpose: To provide awareness of what is happening to children nowadays. Also, to inculcate discipline and to establish a sense of responsibility and of accountability for one another, most especially for children: sibling, relative, relative, or just someone in your neighborhood.

Statement: The government must hold the children aged 12-17 accountable for the crimes they have committed, especially when they are proven guilty. Also, parents and guardians must be held accountable for these criminal acts of their children even if they did not bring about these delinquents to commit the crimes.

INTRODUCTION

I. Attention Step: In 2012, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) served some 2,884 children in conflict with the law (CICL), a 9.85% increase from 2011s 2600 juvenile delinquency cases, through Released on Recognizance, Released on Bail, and Custody Supervision. This is only a small portion of the many unreported cases in the country. In fact, the number of young offenders has never gone down and is continually rising. Some of these cases included violent crimes such as murder, rape, armed robbery, and the like. Unfortunately, young offenders aged 15-18 involved in such cases will be most likely exempt from criminal liability but will subjected to intervention programs due to Republic Act 10630 which enforces a program of counseling and retraining for offenders younger than 15.

II. Clarification Step: My speech is entitled Let the Children Suffer for I want to address the growing number of crimes involving children. If a minor who commits crimes was tried and punished as adults, the number of violent crimes committed by youths would most probably decline since severe penalties and punishments would be used to keep these young offenders in check. The RA 10630 seems to be only a band aid measure to a deeper problem and a medication for it is to let juvenile delinquents suffer the consequences.

BODY

I. The government should abolish the juvenile courts and let the young offenders be tried in the traditional criminal courts.A. The juvenile court is founded on false premises because its purpose is to shield youths from the consequences of their own actions.1. The juvenile courts had functioned to exempt young offenders from adversarial proceedings, to separate them from adults and to afford them treatment and education.2. Some young offenders know how to take advantage of this kind of power against the law. They tend to repeat their criminals acts knowing that they are immune to what the law has in store for adult criminals since they are under-aged. B. The current juvenile crime problem requires that we punish juvenile offenders in order to prevent the next generation of juveniles from becoming criminals.1. Our justice system depends upon holding culprits responsible for their actions.2. Children today are becoming smarter at a younger age, considering the increase in technology; theycan comprehend the meaningof violence and how to use violent weapons. If they know how to handle weapons means that they understand what they are doing.3. To suffer the consequences of their actions means to provide justice to the victim or to the family of the victim.I. According to Norma Marcelino, social welfare officer of Center for Restorative Activities Development and Learning Experiences (CRADLE), most of the 74 male children aged 15 and above who are accused of crimes come from poor families, mostly from depressed areas in Paranaque, Pasig, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, San Juan, and Malabon.

A. The government should improve livelihood and welfare programs.1. They should create meaningful job opportunities and employment training programs to attack poverty.2. Some 200,000 students and out-of-school youth were given summer jobs in March 2014 under the Special Program for the Employment of Students, or SPES, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).3. The number of underemployed Filipinos in January, 2014 was estimated at 7.1 million.B. They should provide free or affordable educational opportunities to the poor, to meet the varying needs of youth and to defend the personal development of all children, especially those who need1. The National Statistics Office (NSO) reports that one out of every five Filipino children had no early education. Only 15% of children aged 3 to 5 years old are attending some early childhood program in pre-school, nursery and day care centers.2. The Department of Education figures for 2013 showed that a total of 126,368 public school students have dropped out of school in the elementary level while 236, 222 others have discontinued their studies in the secondary level.

II. The initial causes of juvenile crime are found in the early learning experiences in the family and peer groups.A. According to a collaborative journal ofWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, middle childhood and early adolescent years were said to be the time wherein children change their view of themselves, when they question and explore the available possibilities for them.B. Based on Philippine National Police statistics, the average reported crime committed by children for the span of 9 years or from 2002 to 2011 is only 2.6% per year. Considering that 289,198crimes happen annually, 7,519 of those crimes involved children. Most of these children ran away from their family or desolated.C. Children who have experienced abuse are nine times more likely to become involved in criminal activities (Gold, Wolan Sullivan, & Lewis, 2011). D. The proliferation of gangs and availability of drugs due to illegal drug markets have provided to an effortless exposure to violence, negative role models, and possible rewards for youthful involvement in violent criminal activities.

CONCLUSION

Summary Step: Ladies and gentlemen, I present this speech because I think that the government has failed to do its part to alleviate poverty and crime such that children are being involved in different kinds of heinous crimes. Let everyone know that every child deserves to be given a head start early in life by ensuring that even before they are born there is already a protective environment waiting for them where they can be nurtured and guided while their needs are readily available and secured.

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