The president of Romania\u2019s National Liberal Party (PNL) and speaker of the Senate, Nicolae Ciuc\u0103, announced that he initiated a bill imposing harsher penalities for child abusers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bill makes it so those guilty of endangering the life or integrity of a minor can be sentenced to 5-10 years in prison, compared to the current legislation’s 3-7 years.<\/p>\n
“Child abusers will receive harsher penalties for their actions. For endangering the life or integrity of a minor, the sentence will be 5-10 years in prison, compared to the current legislation’s 3-7 years. Through this increase, we aimed to eliminate the suspension of the sentence, allowed by the judicial system if the sentence is a maximum of 3 years,” wrote the PNL president in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ciuc\u0103 said that he thought of parents who are drug users when he wrote the bill. According to him, in this case, the sentence increases to 7-12 years in prison, as the drugs constitute an aggravating circumstance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Ciuc\u0103, “the increase in these penalties improves the protection of the little ones, who can only grow up beautifully in a safe, violence-free environment. I am convinced that by protecting the harmonious development of children, we are investing in Romania’s future.”<\/p>\n
Back in 2021,\u00a0Save the Children Romania pointed out<\/a> that one in two Romanian children is subjected to some form of abuse.<\/p>\n