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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2007 
More Severe Sentences Against Sexual Violence
 Prensa Latina
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 |  | Mexican human rights and non-governmental organizations regard violence against women as a social disease, affecting more than 9 million Mexican women. |  | |
Mexican congressman Humberto Andrade Quezada said the current Federal Penal Code establishes sentences from 8 to 14 years.
He specified that sexual violations increase, especially against women and young girls, and the project wants to impose more severe punishments.
Andrade Quezada said there was a request to elevate the punishment for excess of aggressiveness against adolescents up to 7 years of prison, when the maximum is four years.
He demanded state congresses and institutions to revise their judicial frame to promote a greater severity and guarantee respect and integrity for women in Mexico.
Mexican human rights and non-governmental organizations regard violence against women as a social disease, affecting more than 9 million Mexican women.
Forty-six percent of Mexican women recognized having been victims of irritation, emotional or financial, physical or sexual abuse, according to a poll by the National Women's Institute (INMUJER).
"The poll by our specialists revealed the existence of domestic violence in 7 of each 10 Mexican homes," said Patricia Espinosa, president of INMUJER. |
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