Buenos Aires, Feb 12 (NA) – National deputy for the Left Front, Romina del Plá, warned that with the new Juvenile Penal Regime, minors will go to 'horrific places' and that 'none of those kids are going to come out better than they came in.'
'Recidivism rates in all countries show that the rates for minors placed in situations of deprivation of liberty are extremely high because instead of having a policy for reintegration, incarceration is a policy to worsen situations,' analyzed the deputy from the Workers' Party.
'They are not only voting for a measure to increase the persecution of our kids, but they are also voting to allocate resources precisely to incarceration institutions and to continue removing them from all areas where we need to protect childhood in a context of poverty and brutal adjustment,' she indicated.
Del Plá alerted that 'the only thing they are going to achieve by lowering the age to 14 is that drug gangs will go looking for 10, 11, and 12-year-old kids as soldiers.'
'This law does not solve any problem and it is throwing children to the fire, instead of protecting them, which is what we should do,' she concluded.
