The Prosecutor's Office Warns that Crimes Committed by Children Under 14 Have Skyrocketed by 74% in 2025
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El Periódico
The memory of 2025 figure by 74.2% the increase but admits that due to procedural errors in 2024 the data is not fully comparable
The age of the offenders is decreasing and their actions are increasingly violent, according to the Prosecutor's Office, which seeks remedies
Records show that crimes committed by minors are decreasing, but the Public Prosecutor's Office warns of the opposite. There are more and more crimes that cannot be prosecuted because the offender is under 14 years old and, therefore, has not reached the criminal age. These cases are not included in the counts of convictions for minors, but there are more and more of them. In the last year they have increased by 74%, according to the count of th…
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The Public Prosecutor's Office has warned that crime in children under 14 years of age, who are unimputable, has skyrocketed 74.21 per cent over the past year, a "important rise" that results in many cases in violent and sexualized behaviour.
According to data, crimes committed by minors under 14 years of age, which are not criminally punishable, have increased by 74.21%, but those committed by adults also increased by 10.64 % over the previous year. Thus, according to the report, preliminary proceedings involving minors over 14 years of age have been 74,538 compared with 67,367 in 2024, which shows an increase of 10.64%. This breaks the downward line of the last two exercises, warns…
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