The Socialist Party will propose that rape victims be able to file a complaint within a year and that they be exempted from proof of economic failure, while other parties will defend consecration as a public crime.
Parliament is discussing on Thursday five bills relating to the crime of rape, in which four of them protect consecration as a public offense for the crime of rape and other crimes against sexual freedom.
At stake are bills from Bloco de Esquerda (BE), Chega, the People-Animals-Natureza (PAN) and the Liberal Initiative (IL), as well as a petition that has garnered over 107,000 signatures for “Urgency to legislate in the sense of turning the crime of rape into public crime.”
The PS bill, on the other hand, defends that the crime of rape remains a semi-public crime, emphasizing that the legislator’s choice was to evaluate the victim’s autonomy regarding the response options they need after the crime has been committed. crime.
The PS understands “that there is more to be done to improve criminal regulations relating to crimes against sexual freedom” and proposes to extend the time limit for lodging a complaint from the current six months to one year.
On the other hand, he advocates the creation of a “green road” to access the law, “providing victims with evidence of economic failure”, similar to what is already happening with victims of domestic violence.
The consecration of rape as a public crime draws opposition from the Association for Women Against Violence (AMCV), whose strategy should be to protect victims and keep it as a semi-public crime, advocating that it is “unethical” to act on the laws when there are no services in the community.
“And what happens is that women are thrown into courts and services, and often professionals do not know what they are doing, and we have not created a specialized network,” said the president of the association.
According to Margarida Medina Martins, similar to what happens with domestic violence, there is a network of services, but so far it has not been possible to stabilize intervention models, and not all professionals have the same recommendations for intervention.
In her opinion, rape as a public crime does not benefit the victims and punishes them doubly, as they are both “crippled by the rapist”, and “abandoned by the services”, and by a system that “is persecuting, unsupportive and in the dark”.
On the other hand, the chairman of the AMCV pointed out that the extension of the right to report should be different from the right to an examination, stating that a medico-legal examination should be carried out regardless of whether the victim wants to file a complaint or not.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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