A member of the CGPJ warns about the future effect of the 'yes is yes' law: "The most serious events will have fewer penalties"

He defends a "small modification" so that "a law that is good is better"

SEVILLA, 17 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The lawyer and member of the CGPJ Pilar Sepúlveda has warned this Thursday about the future effects of the new Law of Guarantees of Sexual Freedom, known as the Law of 'only yes is yes', beyond the downward revision of sentences already produced, and which he has indicated is "more worrisome" because it means that the crimes of serious sexual violence that are tried from now on have "less penalties" since the maximum penalties have been lowered.

"In the text of the law it is clearly expressed that the maximum sentences are lowered. Not only are previous sentences reviewed; it is that in the future, which is something that is also worrying, the most serious acts in matters of sexual violence will be punished with less pain", Sepúlveda highlighted in statements to Canal Sur collected by Europa Press.

The member has invited to "come closer and really see the text of the law" and has recalled that the CPGJ already warned about this situation in several pages of a report prepared during the preparation of the law. In addition, she has maintained that the conclusions of that document also "clearly noted that this entailed the review of previous sentences."

"It is a general principle of criminal law that the most favorable sentence is the one that is going to be imposed on the prisoner", underlined Sepúlveda, who has insisted in his speech on the need to take into account not only these modifications, but also the effect in future sentences, where the sentences for "acts of very serious sexual violence" the sentences "will drop a lot."

The lawyer has admitted that "it is not possible to go back" to reverse the sentence reductions under this law, but she has invited to correct the text as soon as possible precisely to avoid these situations in the future, something that "concerns her more ". "I think that a small modification would mean that a law that is good is better," Sepúlveda has considered, who has also rejected that the magistrates do not have enough training. "There will be people who do not give the quality, but it will be very punctual because most of the judges are very prepared," she has settled.