Amending Law According to Mood

Do we need amending the Children's Act and do we hurry at every incident to amend the law according to the mood state of the social media community?

I know that killing Mahmoud Mohamed El-Banna, the martyr of magnanimity is a terrible incident but I am against amending the law to satisfy a reprisal situation. Instead of calling for amending the law, which came as a victory for the children`s rights and protecting them from abuse and bullying, we should modify the behavior and morals of society.

The Children`s Act was applied to protect girls from early marriage and to treat them as a commodity sold and bought. It came to protect children from crime and violence. The 18-year is the age appointed by UNICEF as a threshold to receive punishment for misconduct. It is an international law and an agreement signed by Egypt to face the exploitation of children.

The law was not tailored for a person or a situation. Abnormal phenomena exist everywhere around the world and the law must not be amended according to the mood. Unfortunately, the community is dragged behind the emotions. In the case of Mahmoud and Rageh, the killed and the killer are children. The tragic incident portrays that the society has become busy with everything except education, behavior, and violence at home, school, and street, between parents and teachers males and females, on TV, cinema, computer games and on the Internet.

We need to raise up the family and review our behaviors. The values are collapsing and morals are disappearing in our society, resulting in committing inevitable crimes.

This is not new to us. Who did forget the story of Zeina, who was kidnapped by two children under 18 in Port Said and raped and threw her in the building skylight? The judiciary was impotent before the law banning the execution of children and they were sentenced to 15 years in prison, the maximum period that can be sentenced and the law has not been amended for her. Also the incident of Al Ayat 15-year-old girl, who killed the auto-rickshaw driver in defense of her honor.

We don`t need to tailor a law according to the mood to silence the child and rest our peace. We don`t need to amend the Children's Act, but we need it to be completely applied. If a child has the right to health care and safe shelter, he also has the right to raise his awareness, education, ethics and spreading good values and avoid violence and hatred.