The juvenile coordinator room prosecutor, Eduardo Esteban, has warned that more and more children and adolescents are turning to pornography "as if it were a tutorial" that replaces sexual education and points out that this trivialization may be behind the increase in crimes against sexual freedom.
In statements to Efe, the prosecutor has warned that since 2015 there has been a "surprising" increase in crimes against life and in the field of sexual freedom carried out by minors.
Cases such as the one that occurred last November in Badalona (Barcelona), and which has now become known, where an 11-year-old girl has denounced a group sexual assault, allegedly committed by minors (three of them under 14 years, therefore inimputable). One of the attackers has been admitted by order of the juvenile judge, while the other is on probation.
It is difficult to know what causes are behind this increase in sexual assaults committed by minors, but the prosecutor points to the trivialization of sexuality due to increasingly early access to pornography.
"They turn to pornography as if it were a tutorial that we handle on the internet," when porn does not reflect the reality of sex. A "serious mistake" that - in Esteban's opinion - is linked to the "absolute abandonment of sex education".
"There is really no sexual training for minors, who are turning to alternative, undesirable ways, such as pornography," he lamented.
And this can also explain the apparent increase in attacks committed in groups, in the absence of statistics -since the report of the Prosecutor's Office does not discriminate between crimes committed individually or in groups-.
Recordings of these assaults are also common in many crimes committed by minors, not just those of a sexual nature. "To the point that we wonder if the satisfaction they are looking for is that", that of publicizing their actions.
Even knowing that it harms them, because in many cases it has been possible to prove the crime thanks to the recording.
"It is becoming something very common, not only in sexual crimes, but in crimes of violence, or against property, that it seems that they care more about telling it than doing it. It seems that it acts as one more motivation," he says.
On the non-imputability of minors under 14 years of age who are involved in this type of crime, Esteban explains that "these minors are not left to their own devices", but public entities that care for minors are informed so that they adopt some extent that can even be internment in cases as serious as this.
Remember that it is necessary to start from the premise that what is important is not the punishment "but the recovery of the minor" who has committed the crime and has explained that in juvenile justice, children and adolescents are subjected to a study to make an assessment of their personal, educational, social circumstances, etc. and assess what they need.
"Because what he needs is not so much the punishment as to recover him," he insists.
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