After nearly four months of operation, the Special Investigative Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies on situations of abuse and sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (NNA) under State protection, voted this Tuesday morning the main conclusions of your report, which will then go to the Corporation Chamber.
In the report, to which he had access The counter, the commission concludes that situations of sexual abuse and exploitation against NNA under State protection have been “repeated and long-standing in the system.” Likewise, they point out that this institutional weakness has been identified by networks of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (ESCNNA).
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“They see in the protection centers an easy target for their action, which transforms protection residences into spaces at risk of more serious violations, and not safe spaces of protection as it should be,” the document states.
Regarding CSEC networks, the commission found that this is not resolved with the closure of the Direct Administration Specialized Repair Centers (Cread). He pointed out that “the complaint of the capture of a family residence” was what triggered the formation of the commission.
In addition, it was found that the transfer of NNA to other residences is not a solution, “because this practice has allowed the expansion of networks and the recruitment of new girls and new adolescents in homes where they have been transferred,” the document indicates.
Residences and ESCNNA
In the report, legislators pointed to a “lack of inter-institutional responses” to detected cases of CSEC. This considers a deficit in the “specialized attention and urgent protection measures that the victims require, such as in the investigation, control and punishment of the perpetrators.”
They also detected that residences “do not have the conditions” to deal with the problem of ECSNNA.
“From the approaches of the different people and institutions invited to the commission, it is verified that in the residences, whether they are large or family, they do not have the technical guidelines, the personnel, the specialized programs and the networking to address this problematic,” they detailed.
In one of the sessions, the executive director of the Padre Semería Foundation, Benjamin Rodriguez Larrainsaid that graduates of residences, especially from the La Pintana sector, were forming networks of sexual exploitation within the commune.
Rodríguez explained that “many opted for street life due to the lack of opportunities and saw an opportunity in the residential centers to take out certain smaller colleagues and start their respective businesses there.”
Orsini questions “abandonment” to NNA
The president of the commission, the deputy Maite Orsini (RD), told The counter that with the report “we made visible, more than the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, which is the cruelest manifestation of patriarchy and the capitalist system, the infinite negligence of the State in relation to this issue. The little prevention, the abandonment of the poorest and most vulnerable girls and adolescents in the country,” she stressed.
“For this reason, we hope that the incoming government will take charge, for the first time, of preventing and intervening. To stop and end this problem and serious crime,” he added.
“If we had made the commission earlier, we could even have politically accused some authorities, but, for now, it helps us in cases of international denunciation of this issue. What is clear is that we will be aware of what comes and we will press so that The law that seeks to classify the crime of ESCNNA is approved as soon as possible. It is the minimum floor, “he said.
Room Voting
The parliamentarian indicated that the report was approved unanimously by the members of the commission and they hope that next week it will be voted on in the Chamber.
From Fundación Para la Confianza –who participated in the sessions of the commission–, the spokesperson for the Observatorio Para la Confianza, Veronica Uzcateguireferred to child sexual exploitation as one of the worst violations of rights that boys and girls can suffer, for which he clarified the importance of the next vote in the Chamber of Deputies, which should take place next week.
“It is important that as a country we can move forward in specifying measures that really take charge, first of eradicating these violent practices that are based on the relational dynamics of abuse of power, and also that we can take charge of detecting them early and in a timely manner and, of course, , eliminate these networks of exploitation that come to harm children in ways that are unimaginable, “said Uzcategui.
