Through a press release, the Public Ministry (MP) specified that five sentences have been issued. He indicated that eight victims were registered, of which seven are minors and there is also a 79-year-old woman, abused by her 58-year-old neighbor on January 1 in an area near Caracas.
Seven people were arrested for sexual abuse in the first 18 days of the year, according to the case history of the Public ministry (MP). The entity specified that of the total of those apprehended, six are men and the seventh is a 14-year-old adolescent.
With respect to the detained adolescent, the MP pointed out that the young woman was detained because on January 4 she took three girls aged eight, 10 and 11 to her home, where a 62-year-old subject abused them, and threatened them to keep them. silence.
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The Prosecutor’s Office indicated that of the eight victims computed in total in these cases, seven are minors and there is also a 79-year-old woman, abused by her 58-year-old neighbor on January 1 in an area near Caracas.
The MP counts five convictions for this crime so far in 2023, of which the most recent was issued on Tuesday, January 16, when a court sentenced a man to 11 and a half years in prison for sexually abusing his stepdaughter. 12 years old in his home, in Trujillo state.
On the other hand, he reported that the last capture was of a 34-year-old man, accused of abusing a 13-year-old teenager.
The detainee was reported on January 6 by his partner and the victim’s mother to the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), after the teenager revealed the night before that the subject “had made obscene proposals to her and showed her obscene content” in his cell phone, according to a press release from the MP.
From January to October 2022, the MP recorded 1,024 cases of pedophilia in the country. This was reported by Tarek William Saab, attorney general imposed by the extinct constituent assembly, who indicated that a total of 1,426 aggressors were charged, 1,831 were accused and 752 sentences were issued.
The figure given by Saab shows that only from August to October the MP received at least 306 complaints of sexual abuse of children and adolescents, which is equivalent to an average of 153 complaints per month and 4.8 per day. The official did not specify how many accusations they received in the last two months.
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