The Security Forces are aware of the average case. parent abduction one day a year, a crime for which 434 police cases were filed in 2021 over a complaint for the abduction of a minor. According to Ministry of Interior statistics consulted by Europa Press, 283 cases were registered between January and August 2022, 14 of which were abroad.
Official statistics, which did not distinguish whether the complaint came from the father or the mother, were questioned after the Ministry of Interior stopped including this data in annual reports. National Center for Missing Persons (CNDES).
In this sense, opposition parties also criticized the favorable treatment of the executive. Juana Rivas and Maria SevillaTwo mothers were convicted and later pardoned after complaining about their child’s abduction.
Catalonia is in the lead
information Criminality Statistics System, State Security Forces and Bodies, regional and local police forces are detailed with data from locations. Catalonia It is at the top of the known facts with 53 cases so far in 2022, compared to 74 calculated for the whole of 2021.
Andalusia has recorded 44 cases so far this year and Community of Madrid 40, although both communities recorded the same data in the twelve months of last year: 67 thefts. The Valencian Community added 46 parental abductions in 2021, the Balearic Islands 32, the Canary Islands 25, Galicia 19 and the Basque Country 18. Outside of Spain, the security forces were aware of 26 complaints.
Statistics include facts known to police forces, framed in bis 225 of the Criminal Code, which punishes cases involving a parent: “without reason”, kidnaps his youngest son. It provides for a prison sentence of two to four years and specific disqualification for exercise of parental authority from four to ten years.
Abduction is considered to be the transfer of a minor from his or her place of residence without the consent of the parent with whom he or she habitually lives, or the person or institutions that have custody or custody, and other such assumptions. serious violation of established duty by judicial or administrative decision.
Kidnapping of a baby in Zaragoza
Parental abductions often create social alarm due to the mediation of a minor. ANDThe last relevant case was at the Piedra Monastery in Zaragoza on 13 October. here, the Civil Guard solved within hours the abduction of a 13-month-old baby in a shootout resulting from a couple’s recent separation.
He approached his mother in the monastery parking lot. a fierce struggle to his son, leaves the injured person on the ground. This led to an urgent complaint that led to the baby’s father’s arrest in Parla (Madrid), as well as his paternal grandparents and a friend, all of whom – with the knowledge of a lawyer – offered to propose together. their hiding place. The first two were taken into preventive detention.
In less than 24 hours, the Zaragoza Command chief colonel resolved the case and handed the baby over to the mother, José Antonio MingoranceHe admitted to the press that one of the main fears was that the perpetrators of the minor’s abduction would be able to escape from Spain.
Under the Criminal Code, when the minor is transferred outside of Spain —or any conditions are sought for its return— aggravated imprisonment of up to four years is imposed in the upper half.
Ertzaintza has this week arrested a woman in Bilbao for stealing a newborn posing as a nurse from a hospital, but in this case it doesn’t look like the statistics mentioned above a reality outside of the crime framed in parent abduction.
In the reiterated Article 225 of the TCK, it is exempt from punishment if the offender informs the other parent or legal dependent person of the place of stay within 24 hours, “With the prompt return commitment actually performed”.
If a refund occurs in 15 days, imprisonment from six months to two years, the minor’s descendants and the parents’ relatives up to the second degree are also sentenced.