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Newspaper La Jornada
Monday December 26, 2022, p. 7
Only 10 entities in the country have established in their penal codes that attacks with acid and corrosive substances are included as gender violence, said federal deputy Ana Laura Bernal, from the PT.
The legislator regretted that in the 22 states in which aggressors are not criminalized they can receive low penalties for classifying the crime under the category of injuries, for which reason she announced the presentation of an initiative to define, within the Federal Penal Code, penalties of six to 15 years in prison and fines of up to a thousand times the value of the unit of measurement and update -96 thousand 222 pesos, according to the current value this year- to those who inflict an injury with acids, corrosive, chemical or flammable substances .
He explained that acid attacks against women, mainly those that damage their faces, They are an extremely disgusting act that emphasizes the hatred that exists towards them and is considered one of the most misogynistic and horrifying acts against them, after feminicide.
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Not being defined in most state penal codes This is something extremely worrying, because this type of violent action occurs throughout the country, so if a federal entity does not regulate this type of illegal act as in other states, it would possibly be classified as the crime of injuries, in which the sentence is very low or even worse, could go unpunished
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She added that the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) warned that there is no official record in the country of cases of women attacked with acid, corrosive, chemical or flammable substances, despite the fact that these attacks are increasing.
In view of this, he insisted on the need to eradicate all types of violence against women and punish with punitive measures of deprivation of liberty any person who carries out this type of abominable acts
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