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Mexico’s Supreme Court Upholds Vicarious Violence Reforms, Urges Congress to Clarify Penal Rules

Lawmakers now face a directive to spell out the offense’s elements to ensure legal certainty.

Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación
La ministra Yasmín Esquivel consideró que la violencia vicaria no puede ser poco clara y esto provoque confusión para sancionar a quienes usar a los hijos para dañar a las mujeres.
La violencia vicaria es cualquier acto u omisión que tenga por objetivo impedir o romper el vínculo materno filial, yendo desde amenazas, sustracción o incluso el asesinato de hijos o hijas. Foto: Archivo
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Overview

  • The plenary validated 2024 changes to the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, the Federal Civil Code and the Federal Penal Code.
  • In the judgment’s text, ministers included an exhortation to Congress to define with precision in the Penal Code the elements that configure vicarious violence.
  • The majority treated vicarious violence as an aggravating circumstance of family violence rather than an autonomous criminal type.
  • Ministers Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa and Giovanni Figueroa Mejía dissented on the penal wording, warning of ambiguity, due process risks and threats to legal certainty.
  • The Court rejected the CNDH’s action of unconstitutionality, finding no violation of the best interests of children, in a ruling based on a project by Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama.