Ley busca que delitos sexuales contra la niñez no queden impunes

Last updated May 17, 2023

[NAME CHANGED] Javier, 10, attends the UNICEF-supported Carlos Alberto Rivera Hernandez School in San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras, Friday 8 April 2016. Javier's father and five uncles were killed in gang violence and his mother abandoned him. He now lives with his grandmother in the neighbourhood. Javier has not been threatened or attacked by gang members, but he has friends in the older years who have experienced violence and are too scared to come to school. A 15-year-old girl was killed, having been tortured for two days in a neighbourhood known as ‘casa loca’ (crazy house). Javier only attends school in the morning. Gang members tend to send in ‘flags’ to monitor activity and recruit students in the afternoon. “There is a lot of violence here. I want to be a doctor so I can help people who are hurt”. With 57 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2015, Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Organized crime grew in the wake of civil wars in the region, which left many people unemployed and with easy access to weapons. As of August 2016, heavily armed gangs have tens of thousands of members in Honduras and neighbouring countries, where they engage in extortion, assassinations, drug trafficking, car theft, illegal gun sales, kidnappings and turf wars. Instead of being safe learning environments, schools have become recruiting territories for the gangs. Many children and adolescents who attend school must make dangerous trips from their homes to places of education. Once at school, they run the risk of being recruited, threatened, abused, attacked and even killed. The cycle of violence puts many children at risk of physical violence, increasing school dropout rates, as children fear continuing their education. To address these problems, UNICEF is working with communities to create safe schools. UNICEF supports partners such as the COMVIDA Outreach Centre, which gives children and young people at risk of violence support and guidanc

La senadora del Movimiento Al Socialismo, Ana María Castillo, informó que el anteproyecto de Ley de Lucha Contra la Impunidad en Delitos Sexuales Contra Infantes, Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes de la imprescriptibilidad busca que los delitos sexuales cometidos contra niñas, niños y adolescentes no queden impunes y sean tratados por una comisión especial para que haga seguimiento a estos casos.

El anteproyecto de ley está en contra de la impunidad de los delitos sexuales contra aquellos que fueron víctimas de violación y que no tuvieron la posibilidad de denunciar en su momento “pues no prescribe en realidad el delito”, y tratándose de niños, adolescentes o jóvenes tendrían la oportunidad de plantear una acción penal y el proceso correspondiente en el momento en el que la víctima se sienta capaz de sentar la denuncia.

“Hay víctimas que por miedo, temor o vergüenza en su momento (que fueron agredidos) no pueden sentar la denuncia, no solamente por miedo si no por amenazas a que pueden ser víctimas de otro daño a él o a su entorno familiar. Estos niños, después de muchos años encontrándose en la capacidad y la fortaleza de poder denunciar lo hace y el que cometió el delito tiene que ser sancionado como corresponde”, explicó. Además, este anteproyecto de ley plantea la conformación de una comisión especial de alto nivel para que pueda hacer el seguimiento en las etapas de prevención, investigación y sanción de los victimarios.

Fuente Urgente.bo