in april 2016, on the vp campaign trail, marcos jr. said he would only apologize for the sins he might have committed in his 27 years in office as former ilocos norte governor, congressman, and senator. now on the presidential campaign trail he has yet to acknowledge and apologize for not paying his correct taxes while he was governor. most likely on the advice of his abogados de campanilla in the disqualification cases filed against him sa comelec.
meanwhile, as comelec takes its sweet time deciding the case, the question of whether or not the son, as beneficiary, is answerable for the crimes of the father continues to be debated. Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino weighs in.
… there is something interesting that we can learn from law. While criminal liability is extinguished by the death of the accused, civil liability devolves on his estate. There is nothing esoteric nor irrational about these propositions for while death causes the cessation of the existence of him who can say “I did it” of a crime, he leaves behind goods, money and property that can answer for any wrong or harm effected by his transgression. The duty to make amends therefore must be fulfilled in good faith by those who succeed when the wrongdoing of father, mother or relation is established. This demand can be rightly pressed and where the failings and faults of an ascendant have been duly proved, then must the descendants make just amends. Of course, it becomes more difficult to exact these when it is also required that a child repudiate his parent, or accept as his or her own the failing of an antecedent generation.
Some years ago, in his “Teditorials,” Foreign Secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin made the irrefutable statement that it is to demand something unnatural to require of a child that he characterize his own father as a thief, a murderer or a brigand. And it is, of course, as true of a son or daughter that though the guilt not be his or hers, when legally and morally justified, the obligation to restitute or to indemnify most definitely is!
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