The Justice Minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz, left this Wednesday in the Committee of Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees copy of a news story with a statistic on recurrence of recently denied pedophiles.
A week to defend in the plenary of the National Assembly the controversial creation of a list of sexual abusers of children, the ruling was heard in the specialized parliamentary committee on various subjects related to justice. “I’ll leave here a document on pedophilia”, announced at one point. Only that what was handed a 2009 news that a skilled person, the psychologist Mauro Paulino, comes to speak in recidivism rates of pedophiles in the order of 80%. With these “very high recidivism rates” Paula Teixeira da Cruz has justified the possibility of parents come to know whether a person who lives in your area already was or not convicted of sexual abuse of minors. It turns out that after seeing the minister to lean on your Mauro Paulino work has come to say I never spoke in similar percentages of recurrence, and that only through ignorance did not deny the news soon in 2009.
“This was said and was not denied, “said the minister in Parliament about the newspaper article content. To immediately afterwards, is itself contradicted by Socialist MP Pita Plum: “It was denied”
“All right.. But he was told, “replied Paula Teixeira da Cruz, which has not yet presented any study that confirms the very high such recidivism. Mauro Paulino ensures ignore scientific research to provide supporting evidence: “No, to my knowledge, consistent studies on recidivism in sexual crimes committed by pedophiles” he says. And cites a recent study which found that the recurrence of various types of sex offenders – of minors and adults – varies between 15 and 20%. Expresses still strangeness by the Ministry of Justice want to “legislate based on newspaper reports.”
In the committee members of the opposition still wanted to know what justified the need to increase the budget of justice in 192 million euros, also the year will not even halfway through. According to Secretary of State for Justice, who accompanied the minister to Parliament, 60 million will be used to restore pay cuts to ministry officials, while the remaining money will be spent on procurement of goods and services such as construction projects in the courts. “The Department of Investigation and Penal Action Porto threatened to collapse,” exemplified Paula Teixeira da Cruz. To form more attorneys, as it has repeatedly asked the Magistrates’ Union of the prosecution, is not foreseen more money. “Just look at the number of magistrates per capita in the Nordic countries, and in France, Spain and Italy to realize that we do not have judges less,” said the ruling. “Of course I understand that a union will ask for another hundred, then another 200 professionals. It is part of their function. “
As for the proposal to place the Judicial Police under the control of the prosecution, also suggested by unions linked to the two organizations, the minister believes that there is not, at present, any conditions for this to be done: “It would be the full functionalization of the Judicial Police and could call into question the very nature of the prosecution,” noted
When positive balance that made the reforms initiated in the judicial system – eventually. mayors who were against the closure of courts have already left, the Secretary of State’s words, his “initial obstinacy” – the vice-president of the PSD bench, Carlos Abreu Amorim, added a brief critique, but corrosive, the latest document presented by PS on the governance of the country, the report “A decade for Portugal”: “There’s a page-third of justice, full of platitudes and generalities, how to make more transparent justice system. It is quite poignant. “
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