The Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, has demanded that the judges make an effort to apply the reform of the law of September 2021 that prohibits children from visiting their abusive parents.
Rossell has spoken like this when asked in an interview on RNE about the murder this Sunday of an 11-year-old boy by his father – who had a restraining order from his partner – at a home in the town Valencian from Sweden, which was discovered when the mother went to pick up her son.
The Government Delegation is collecting data on this murder, which would be the first minor murdered by vicarious violence in 2022, and the 47th number of minors murdered by their parents in 2013.
In relation to the murder of the minor from Sueca, Rosell has assured thator it is known “if there was a visitation regime established before or after the conviction of gender violence”, but he has insisted that “an abuser cannot be a good father”.
“There are mothers, even with remoteness, but their children do not have that protection measure, who have these visitation regimes and live in anguish thinking about vicarious violence; no it can hurt me but it can hurt my children“, has explained.
“The law says thatand should be discontinued that the visitation regimes that existed will be suspended; I am afraid that in general this effort has not been made to review all these visiting regimes as soon as possible, such as when a Penal Code comes into force, that reform of the Civil Code that has been going on for many months, came into force in September 2021 and their review could save lives,” he added.
In case that there is no conviction, the judges could apply a precautionary deprivation, “but it will always be better repair a visitation regime than trying to repair a broken childhood or repair a murder.
For Rosell, the legislation on gender violence can still be improved in relation to the vicarious Violence, for example, by making it easier for mothers whose children have been murdered by their parents to be considered direct victims and to be able to access the aid provided for in the law.
“Missing things in the aids, these mothers need psychological and economic help, They demand that we change our surnames, that you bear the surname of your murderer if a tribute is paid to the children, it is even more traumatic,” he asserted.