A significant increase in the punishments for all cases of sexual abuse against minors, as envisaged in the Criminal Code, has been proposed by Deputies from the Parliamentary Group of the MRF-NEW BEGINNING. The draft law was submitted to the National Assembly today.
The motives behind it state that the sharp increase in cases involving the abuse of minors in the creation and unpunished dissemination of material with pornographic content in cyberspace is causing irreparable harm to society.
The motives behind the draft bill state that for the most part the punishments in the current Criminal Code are low and the fines are negligible. In a number of texts there is no minimum punishment, and the maximum amounts are too low to ensure the general preventive nature of the law. This allows the perpetrators of these heinous acts to feel impunity or receive low punishments, and to continue their depraved actions.
We are convinced that such acts should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, in order to provide more robust protection for the most valuable and vulnerable groups in our society. The motives behind the draft law also state that with the adoption of the texts proposed by us, we hope that perverted pedophiles and criminals will never again be released on ridiculous bail and this will prevent the just anger and reaction of society.
The last such case that scandalised society was the release under negligible bail of Alexander Evtimov, the director of the 138th school in Sofia, arrested for filming in the school toilets with hidden cameras. According to official information from Nikolay Nikolaev, the spokesperson of the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, he was accused of two separate serious crimes. The first is for maintaining a special technical device intended for tacit collection of information carried out as an official and the second is for creating pornographic material involving minors.
