The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) condemns the reprehensible acts committed by a father on his own minor child in the City of Santa Rosa, Laguna recently which was captured on video and uploaded in social media.

The disturbing video shows a child hanged upside down to the window grills by an adult male, purportedly his father, who struck the helpless child several times on his legs and torso while apparently venting his frustrations with his parents.

The CHR reiterates that due to their special condition, children are entitled to special care and assistance as a matter of right, and that no child deserves such abominable treatment from anyone, least from the very people that law and society expects to endow them with love and nurturance. While the CHR lauds the concerned government agencies that assisted in the reported swift rescue of the victim from his father who has since reportedly absconded, it has launched its own probe on the incident to ensure that the perpetrator is brought before the bars of justice with dispatch, and the child-victim is provided with appropriate assistance, including the physical and psychosocial treatment.