SUBJECT:  SPEEDY DISPOSITION OF CASES INVOLVING CHILDREN.

All trial judges are enjoined to act with dispatch on all cases involving children, including, but not limited to, child labor case under Rep. Act No. 7610, cases of child abuses and pedophilia.

It is directed that arraignment should be scheduled within a week after the accused is placed in the Court’s custody or upon filing of the bail bond and pre-trial/trial shall commence within three [3] days from arraignment.

Attention is called to Section 30 of Rep. Act No. 7610 which provides that violations of this Act should be heard in the chambers of the RTC duly designated as Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts.