How many sexual offenders released from prison with the Law of only yes means yes wear telematic monitoring bracelets?

   MADRID, 3 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Barely "two or three" of the more than one hundred sexual offenders released in application of the Law of only if it is yes wear a telematic bracelet, as revealed to Europa Press by the president of the Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence of the General Council of Power Judicial (CGPJ), Ángeles Carmona, after learning about the case of the repeat offender from Dos Hermanas (Seville) who was released from prison two months before the provisions of this regulation.

According to data from the CGPJ, there are 1,155 sentence reductions due to the application of the law and 117 releases. In this sense, Carmona recalled that with current legislation it is possible to impose an electronic device, "the famous bracelets to control that the sexual offender does not approach his victim."

However, he has admitted that "the number is very small" and that there are "two or three since the releases began." "They were made at the beginning, which was precisely the moment in which they began to review the sentences in which the sentence was about to be served," she added.

The Ministry of Equality offered judges last December the possibility of installing these devices, in principle reserved for aggressors of gender violence, sexual offenders released by application of the Law of only yes is yes. In January, this department revealed that electronic devices had already been installed but did not want to give the number of those that were active for security reasons.

Convictions for sexual crimes are accompanied by restraining measures that must last between 1 and 10 years longer than the prison sentence and the telematic bracelet would be a control measure for this period. That is to say, it is a control tool for a sentence already imposed and that is installed after the request by court order.

The Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, explained in January that the objective of this measure is for the aggressors released after the review to have "telematic control" during this period of removal and that "it has a positive impact on the situation of safety" of women.

Carmona has also defended this measure in question, which he has considered "very useful". In fact, he has stressed that countries like France have imitated this model to protect victims. "For the victim it means greater peace of mind, greater security and also what it does is discourage the aggressor from approaching, because at the moment it occurs the alarms go off and he also commits a very serious crime which is breaching", has added.

But Carmona has also wanted to focus on the re-education systems after. "The fact that an abuser or a sexual offender has been released from prison and has reoffended again leads us to think that the systems for reeducating abusers and, above all, sexual offenders are not working," he said.

In the same way, he explained that they fear that there will be more repeat offenders for this type of crime. "We are not doing something right when these sexual offenders cannot be reintegrated into society, and that is why we have to have a lot of influence on that, to make an effort in these re-education courses," she added.