The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, throughout a plenary session in Congress. EUROPA PRESS
Since October 7, when the reform of the Criminal Code entered into pressure, the discharge of no less than 18 individuals has been ordered. The magistrates clarify that these opinions and reductions in sentences are made as a result of the Criminal Code itself, in its article 2.2, establishes that the legislation “most favorable” to the prisoner ought to all the time be utilized The legislation of ‘solely sure is sure’ has precipitated the crime of sexual assault to soak up that of sexual abuse, which implies that a criminal offense that till now included a extra critical conduct incorporate a much less critical
The variety of these convicted of sexual offenses who’ve benefited from the brand new penalty framework included within the ‘solely sure is sure’ legislation quantities to no less than 2002, between decrease sentence opinions and subsequent sentences in software of the norm . Since October 7, when the reform of the Penal Code entered into pressure, the discharge of no less than 18 individuals has been ordered. The final 20 penalty reductions have come out this week and have occurred in Andalusia, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Galicia, the Basque Country and the Canary Islands.
One of the most recent instances diminished this week corresponds to the Appeals Section of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, which has diminished the sentence of a younger man who had raped a pal who stayed behind from 9 and a half years to 4 and a half years. sleep at house in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona), in 2019.
Other of the 2 of the final sentence reductions have occurred in Asturias. The first corresponds to a criminal offense of rape by penetration, for which a person was sentenced to 13 years in jail, however, with the revision of the sentence, this has now been diminished to 9 years and eight months.
The second case in Asturias corresponds to the conviction of the perpetrator of an tried crime of sexual assault on a minor below 16 years of age to a custodial sentence of three years in jail, however which has been diminished to the present authorized minimal, thus being mounted in two years and 6 months in jail.
The most favorable legislation for the prisoner
In the greater than 200 registered up to now, the magistrates clarify that these opinions and sentence reductions are made as a result of the Penal Code itself, in its article 2.2, establishes that the “most favorable” legislation should all the time be utilized to the prisoner.
The legislation of ‘solely sure is sure’ has precipitated the crime of sexual assault to soak up that of sexual abuse, which implies that a criminal offense that till now included a extra critical conduct incorporates a much less critical one, in order that the prison fork additionally It has been expanded to cowl the complete vary of behaviors now punishable as sexual assault.
Thus, the authorized sources consulted by Europa Press clarify that the variety of instances by which the reductions are utilized will proceed to develop as a result of pending opinions in all of the autonomous communities.