The Ministry of Justice confirmed that this Saturday, February 5, the law that perfects the Registry of Offenders and establishes the perpetual inability to work with children and adolescents will come into force for all people who have committed child abuse.
In turn, next week the initiative that prevents those who commit sexual crimes against minors from accessing the benefit of reduced sentences will comply with this last procedure.
The Government stressed that these regulations “are complemented by the Law on the Imprescriptibility of Sexual Offenses against children and adolescents, and with the bill that criminalizes commercial sexual exploitation of children.”
The Minister(s) of Justice and Human Rights, Sebastián Valenzuela, said that “these new laws are part of a policy that has been an axis of our ministry: modernize our criminal justice, to put children and adolescents first in the line, and in particular, to fully protect their indemnity and sexual freedom”.
Specifically, now those who have committed the following crimes of the Penal Code will not be able to access sentence reductions:
- Unlawful coercion or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment with rape or aggravated sexual abuse
- self rape
- Rape of a person under 14 years of age
- Rape
- Aggravated sexual abuse
- own sexual abuse
- Sexual abuse of a person under 14 years of age
- corruption of minors
- Production of child pornographic material
- Promotion or facilitation of the prostitution of minors
- Obtaining sexual services by minors
- Marketing, dissemination and acquisition or storage of child pornographic material
- Qualified human trafficking, in relation to sexual exploitation
- robbery rape
