Controversy. INAU warning from the Broad Front and the age of 13 juveniles could be tried
warns on Uruguay damage if you lower the age of accountability
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Vonitasdechris Polonia
The proposal to lower the age of accountability generates controversy and different interpretations. To the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) of the United Nations, to try juveniles as adults could bring harm to Uruguay to be rejecting international agreements.
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Label Clarification. They insist that there is a penal system for juveniles who commit crimes.
"They should be imprisoned" said last week a lady at all after news reports chronicling an assault in Montevideo. It was "two children", according to the Chronicle, which had committed a robbery.
Yesterday, a newspaper headline that "82% of juvenile offenders is prosecuted for the crime of plunder "(newspaper" The Observer "). In the election campaign of 2009 was not far behind this issue and was installed as debate, particularly between whites and Frente, where the latter are opposed to the proposal of first to lower the age of accountability. From the Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU), the debate should be closed being that "the actual Code on Children and Adolescents determines that it can detain and take measures under age from 13 to 18 years. "
But beyond this debate," Uruguay must review their own house, their own needs, and seeing the reality of today, taking into account the international agreements "as he said yesterday one of the legislators who support lowering the age of accountability, the red Fitzgerald Cantero.
is that from various social sectors, particularly from the CRC, is concerned that Uruguay adopted a measure similar to that of other countries in terms of lowering the age of accountability. One concern relates not only to issues of "legality" or "agreement" but also respect for the rights of children and adolescents in our country.
Debate debate the proposals emerged from some political and constant appearances on the subject of downward accountability as well as references to crimes committed by minors in the media of concern to the CRC in our country.
Yesterday, Luis Pederson, the NSC, told the Republic: "We are watching with concern that the issues of crimes committed by adolescents are magnified in the press." For those who work directly with these issues, the stigma of adolescents is a constant, particularly in relation to crimes are "there is a magnification of the case." Both in the media, and society as well as politically, the issue the age of accountability "is every day on the table," said Pederson and "further magnifies the basis of proposals from political sectors about" proposed "to lower the age of criminal responsibility."
Projects Various projects are being studied at the legislative level, in order to lower the age of accountability. "Our plan what he proposes is to lower the age for certain crimes. It is not for any crime," said Colorado Rep. Cantor. There are other projects (such as the nationalist deputy Luis Lacalle Pou, who proposed not to delete the background of offenders Once they have attained the age of majority), but particularly the proposal that comes from focusing on red lines that juveniles are tried as adults for certain crimes, as explained by the legislator. As the project
Colorado Party "is not a concrete thing for all the guys who are breaking the law, but for those who commit violent crimes." "Our party, to support this law, has studied various statistical data to support that our project addresses a real problem, but above all we take into account that people are helpless and there is a real demand," he added. Anyway "is talking about the penalty, but as we focus on is in seclusion, which must be specific and today is what is going wrong. "
Already
system Pederson said yesterday that in our country we already have a juvenile justice system, and that" if you want to send juveniles to adult prisons, Uruguay should begin to see the ways of complaint to the process by which an international pact falls. "According to Pederson, if so," Uruguay would be violating the human rights treaties, and would to join the group of countries along with Somalia and the United States do not recognize the International Convention on the Rights of the Child ".
The head of Jorge Ferrando INAU REPUBLIC yesterday said that with regard to the age of accountability insist that the Code of Childhood and Adolescence "states that since he was thirteen, offenders are detained if they commit serious or very serious" . According to the deputy
Cantero "no question of confining, but to rehabilitate." Cantero said that "currently, the work done by the INAU is insufficient." "I myself have found that children placed in Colonia Berro are 23 hours locked in a room," he said. According Ferrando is important to ensure proper functioning of the system and carry out the powers we have, are both probation, assisted or deprivation of liberty. "Ferrando explained that" although the current system is flawed, work is underway aimed at rehabilitation. "stressed that" own television last week issued a series interviews that showed how the rehabilitation work being done in the Colony INAU Sarandi.
The rejection of the Frente Amplio July
Bango Socialist MP, said yesterday the Republic that "the program itself the Frente Amplio opposes lowering the age of accountability "understood as" that children go to adult prisons. "Bango agrees with Pederson and Ferrando as to the existence of a current system, which from the Children's Code of juvenile offenders are held responsible. "It's a mistake that tells the public that minors are not punishable because it states that from age 13 to 17, the existence of a juvenile justice system, are placed in the hands of justice ". He said that "Uruguay has a juvenile criminal system, separate from the adult criminal system." Added "when from the Colorado Party said that in Chile they are judged from the 14 was a mistake because there are also juvenile justice system, and indeed here they are judged from the 13." The four games
represented in Parliament agreed on interparty agreements this year when a new period of government, which will create a National Rehabilitation System for juvenile offenders. From the Broad Front Colorado Party is accused of "contradictions" to support the creation of this system in favor agreements, but also promote the public that "children are not to blame", which "is totally false in Uruguay "as Rep. Bango said. LOWERING
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