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Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has finally approved extending the definition of "sexual abuse" in the...
Sexual abuse is redefined as any sexual act performed without consent, including touching, caressing, body rubbing, exhibition or explicit sexual representations.
Mexico City, Feb. 19 (EFE).- The Chamber of Deputies of Mexico unanimously approved extending the criminal definition of the crime of sexual abuse, including that the silence or lack of resistance on the part of the victim cannot be interpreted as consent. With the favorable vote of 431 deputies, the Mexican Congress gave the green light to the reform of articles 260 and 266 bis of the Federal Criminal Code on sexual abuse, to expand its definit…
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elnorte.comThe C mara of Deputies unanimously approved, with 431 votes in favour, a Senate minute that extended to the criminal type of sexual abuse.
Tijuana, February 19.- Yesterday, the Chamber of Deputies approved, without change, the reform to extend the definition of sexual abuse, proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, in which it was established that silence or lack of resistance on the part of the victim cannot be interpreted as consent. However, the plenary endorsed the reduction of the years of imprisonment to whoever commits the said illicit, after the majority considered that the…
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