La mediación penal en caso de incesto

Abstract

The cases of incest, most of the times, are not unveiled; the situation of violence and permanent abuse is used to taking place very often, it makes in one way or another the girl remain caught in her terrible secret and hide it for a long time. On the other hand, in the few cases that go to the justice process, the father is lockedup in a prison where he gets permanent maltreatment from the other prisoners, and the girl, victim of incest is used to feeling an intense guiltiness due to this fact. The penal mediation, a judicial process carried out under the responsibility of a public prosecutor, allows –without dictating any sanctions- to reestablish a relationship between the father and the daughter, in order to help the reinsertion of both in a society founded on the Universal Law of Incest Prohibition.