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Santo Domingo.- Feminist organizations are protesting in front of Congress Wednesday to demand stiffer penalties for femicides and against violence toward women.
Defying drenching rain and antiriot police which asked the protesters to allow the entry of congressional employees, dozens of women chanted and stood locked in arms to demand further changes in the Criminal Code.
The organizations rebuke the Chamber of Deputies’ intent to ease the penalty for gender violence, noting that cases would be considered severe only with the victim's death or when there’s a disability of more than 90 days.
They stressed a violation to Law 24-97, which stipulates that the aggravating circumstances depend on how the aggression is committed, such as when children are present.
They said the new Penal Code lowers the penalties for incest and doesn’t establish the maximum penalty.
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Far more men are murdered than women, so getting their murderers to fix the roads would get the job done much sooner, don't you think?
Basta with the cohort favoring laws at all levels.
Up with the punishments for thuggery and murder.
I am against any murder or molestation of anyone also against buying your way out of a jail term. Their complaints is there is not enough jail room so they have to let them out. I say put them to work helping the country instead of sitting in jail, make them at least useful.
But the vast majority of murders are not "femicides" and men far outweigh women as victims of all kinds of violence, including domestic, so the contribution to prison populations is not significant. The law is meant to be impartial and gender neutral. Yet the feminists want heavier sentences when the victim is a female, and also lighter sentences when the perpetrator is a female.