Overview

• Lawmakers on the Constitution and Justice Committee raised reclusion for crimes of sexual exploitation of children, adolescents and vulnerable people from 4–10 years to 6–12 years, with Senator Eliziane Gama issuing a favorable report.
• The sponsor of the penalty increase, Senator Zequinha Marinho, argues the higher minimum prevents domiciliary sentences in cases that often occur within the victim’s home.
• The panel also backed extending the maximum period of socio‑educational internment for adolescents from three to five years, allowing up to ten years for acts with violence, grave threat or analogous to heinous crimes.
• The juvenile measure changes the ECA and Penal Code by revoking compulsory release at age 21, removing the ‘relative minority’ attenuating factor, and lifting to 75 the age threshold that enables sentence and prescription reductions.
• Reporting on the juvenile bill notes added procedures such as custody hearings for minors caught in flagrante and the end of the 45‑day cap on provisional internment, while coverage differs on bill authorship between Senators Zequinha Marinho and Fabiano Contarato.