I’m publishing a communication by Egidio Pedrini, an IdV deputy and secretary to the Communications Committee of the Lower House. It’s about violence towards children.
”Veltroni today spoke out about the issue of paedophilia, a topic on which no one can afford to stop being vigilant. However, I would like Veltroni to take note that last June, motion number 1-00194 was approved by the Lower House that among the commitments of the government set out one to “take every action so that” the United Nations comes to recognise paedophilia as a crime against humanity, and then in July 2007 draft law number 2941 on paedophilia was laid before the House. Mine was the top signature on this document. It increases penalties and makes them more certain for paedophiles and then there is the draft law number 3310 dated December 2007, once again with my signature. This is an addition to the penal code and brings in the law of kidnapping of children. Both draft laws set out the impossibility of the use of “prescrizione” {time out} for the crime of violence against children or the possibility of this starting only at the moment that the victim becomes an adult. These two draft laws are on the website of the Lower House and anyone can follow the progress of their passage through Parliament. On the topic of the fight against paedophilia that relates to the whole of society, it could be possible to ask for a unanimous convergence, even with the Houses not in session, really because paedophiles or those who commit acts of violence against children can strike at any moment.
Pedrini Egidio"