Brazilian Senate Passes Bill Raising Penalties for Sex Crimes Against Vulnerable Groups

Overview

• The Senate approved PL 2,810/2025 in a symbolic vote, sending the final text to the presidency after reconciling changes made by the Chamber of Deputies.
• Sentences increase across key offenses, including 10–18 years for rape of a vulnerable person, 12–24 years for cases with serious injury, 20–40 years when the victim dies, and 6–14 years for corruption of minors.
• The final report reinstates compulsory DNA collection for individuals under investigation, in pretrial detention, and for those convicted at any stage of sentence execution.
• Technology firms face immediate takedown upon notification of abusive content involving minors, preservation of logs and metadata, urgent notification to authorities, and extended data retention for investigations.
• The package adds ankle monitors for those convicted of sex crimes and feminicide during temporary release, creates a new Code of Criminal Procedure chapter on child and adolescent sex crimes, criminalizes violating protective orders with 2–5 years of imprisonment, and expressly includes older adults in protective measures.