Approved pedophile database

My friends, this was taken from Correio da Manhã newspaper:

http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/nacional/politica/detalhe/aprovada_base_de_dados_de_pedofilos.html

Approved pedophile database

Decision of the Council of Ministers.

The Government approved on Thursday a bill establishing "the creation of a criminal identification registration convicted of crimes against sexual self-determination and sexual freedom of minors", which will go to the parliament.

According to Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio Moura Costa, it is proposed that those who exercise parental responsibilities can ask the police authorities in your area, "on the basis of concrete situations", whether a person appears or not that database, which "will be directly accessible to police and judicial authorities" and also "the probation services and child protection committees and youth."

In a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers, the Minister of the Presidency, Luis Marques Guedes, stressed that at issue "only the application traffic with convicted persons names in judged," said that the registration will be of limited duration, between five and twenty years, depending on length of prison sentence, and called for "real national debate" on the issue.

According to the statement of the Council of Ministers, this is a "two measures for the protection of children and to prevent and minimize the risks of acts of sexual offenses against children" of the bill approved today, the other "inhibition of a convicted person's exercise of professional or voluntary activities involving direct and regular contact with children."

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I wonder that now that the database is approved, if judges will continue to order pedophiles to be free, instead of being in jail, also I wonder if the names of those criminals will be known, because parents, also other citizens should know who they are to avoid the contact of them with children.

Good news, Pedro - and very long overdue. At least they are finally trying to keep track of perverts.

bb1, I agree with you.

Good one, Pedro. At long last. Portugal is going to have cause to thank Madeleine and The McCanns.

Sabot, your words are mine.

Well, better late than never.

I agree with comments above written.

My friends, this was taken from msn news:

http://www.msn.com/pt-pt/noticias/other/ped%C3%B3filos-v%C3%A3o-ter-de-dizer-%C3%A0-pol%C3%ADcia-onde-est%C3%A3o-durante-20-anos/ar-AA9K4CE?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Pedophiles will have to tell the police where they are over 20 years

Name, affiliation and Citizen Card will be on the sex offenders database, which will be managed by the director general of the justice system. Convicts must notify ever leaving the city.

Name, address, affiliation, VAT number, social security number, citizen card, how many crimes committed and what time served. This information will be in the database of the convicted with time served by sexual abuse and is in the hands of one person: the general director of the Administration of Justice.

This same list - which will have the names available within 20 years - will still be available to magistrates (judges and prosecutors) and the Protection of Minors commissions. The Diário de Notícias knows the law, approved on Thursday by the council of ministers and will include the discussion in Parliament, provides that all these sentenced to time served have to notify the authorities when they leave home more than a week or when change their place of residence.

My friends, this was taken from Diário de Notícias news:

http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=4452994

Pedophiles will have to tell the police where they are over 20 years

Name, affiliation and Citizen Card will be on the sex offenders database, which will be managed by the director general of the justice system. Convicts must notify ever leaving the city.

Name, address, affiliation, VAT number, social security number, citizen card, how many crimes committed and what time served. This information will be in the database of the convicted with time served by sexual abuse and is in the hands of one person: the general director of the Administration of Justice.

This same list - which will have the names available within 20 years - will still be available to magistrates (judges and prosecutors) and the Protection of Minors commissions. The Diário de Notícias knows the law, approved on Thursday by the council of ministers and will include the discussion in Parliament, provides that all these sentenced to time served have to notify the authorities when they leave home more than a week or when change their place of residence.

This has been in operation in other countries for many years, Pedro. Although some inevitably escape the net by moving to places like Portugal. Especially Portugal. There needs to be a Global Register, if there isn't one already.

But it's a step in the right direction. Portugal has a horrendous reputation for ignoring it's own Paedophile problem, let alone harbouring Paedophiles from other countries. The latter is not the fault of Portugal, as it happens. But someone has got to keep track of these people.

Sabot, your words are mine.

Pedro Silva wrote:Sabot, your words are mine.

I am encouraged by this, Pedro. And by the attempts to clear out the bad apples from The PJ. I don't think this would have happened were it not for Madeleine.

The PJ know who was present in that Police Station when Leonor Cipriano was beaten. And they know how badly Amaral cocked up, and why. But sadly, weren't in a position to prove it. Although they bloody well should have been.

There was a Little Mafia going on down on The Algarve. Those days are over. Bunch of bleeding thugs, and such shame to Portugal.