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Editorial
Published:
2022-04-30

Sexual assault in children under 18 years of age

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https://doi.org/10.37980/im.journal.rspp.20221887

Keywords:

sexual assault, girls, adolescents

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The Panamanian State ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990 and thereby assumed the commitment to create mechanisms for the protection of children and adolescents, but current statistics indicate that the protection rights of minors continue to be violated and they are on the increase, especially in the indigenous regional regions of the country.

As we see in the annual report of the Public Ministry of Panama for the year 2021, a total of 2,257 cases of "sexual access with a person over fourteen (14) years of age and under eighteen (18)" were registered (article 176 of the penal code ) which represented an increase of 18% compared to the 1,913 cases in 2020.

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