Brazilian Senate Sends Tougher Sexual-Crime Bill to Lula for Sanction

Overview

• The Senate approved PL 2,810/2025 in a symbolic vote on Nov. 11, advancing a comprehensive response to crimes against children, adolescents and other vulnerable people.
• New sentencing ranges include 10–18 years for rape of a vulnerable person, 20–40 years when it results in death, 6–14 years for corruption of minors, and 4–10 years for offering or selling rape scenes.
• The text restores mandatory DNA collection for those investigated, held in preventive custody or convicted for sexual offenses.
• Convicted offenders must use electronic ankle monitors during authorized prison exits, with broader electronic oversight applying to sexual crimes and feminicide cases.
• Platforms face obligations to remove abusive content, alert authorities and preserve records; the law also expands urgent protective measures, adds elderly people to the vulnerable category, tightens regime progression via criminological or toxicological exams, and raises penalties for breaching protections to two to five years.