News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Mexico tightens jail terms for child abuse

REUTERS

8:52 p.m. February 20, 2007

MEXICO CITY – Mexico, one of many developing countries tarnished by a clandestine but thriving child sex industry, moved Tuesday to tighten jail sentences for abusers of minors to up to 30 years.

The law, approved by the Senate Tuesday after passing through the lower house last year, will lengthen prison terms and end the classing of sexual exploitation of children as a minor offense where convicts often get early release.

Priests, offenders charged with abusing underage family members and public sector employees like teachers or doctors who used their position to access children will automatically be given a double sentence, meaning up to 30 years.

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