Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Socialist Party calls for clemency for a battered convicted of violating … – euronews

The Socialist Party calls for clemency for a battered convicted of violating … – euronews

Reuters, 19/02 18:10 CET

 Image of Mary Salmerón. EFE / File Image of Mary Salmerón. EFE / File

Madrid, February 19 ( EFE ) .- The PSOE has started today in the Congress an offensive for the government pardoned Mary Salmerón, a Sevillian woman of 50 years, a victim of male violence, sentenced to six months in prison for violating visitation set for their abuser would see their daughter.

Maria Salmeron, who has offered a press conference in Congress by the Socialist Equality spokeswoman, Carmen Stack, and also Member of PSOE Angeles Alvarez, believes that the “system does not do enough to protect battered women and their children nor” and stressed that his, Miriam, who in four months will be 15 years since 2012 refuses to “go with the father” .

PSOE , who think that a “perpetrator must not have or custody or visitation”, defends it would be a “nonsense” and that generate a ” irreparable damage to a woman in prison for protecting his daughter, “said Carmen Heap.

” This is a case where the PSOE no can stay out, “stressed the deputy Angeles Alvarez, who along with Heap is knowing each week of similar cases.

So want the case María Salmerón serve for the government to send the company a “clear message” on behalf of the victims. “We ask the Government to become aware of very disturbing social message that would send the entry into prison this woman,” warned Alvarez

The socialist offensive start in the coming days with a battery of parliamentary initiatives and meetings with institutions such as the Attorney and the General Council of the Judiciary ( GCJ ), culminating in a proposal that Congress urge the Government to grant clemency.

Maria Salmeron has reported that she was married less than a year and broke up in 2000 by abuse, for which her ex-husband was sentenced to 21 months in prison, although he never came in prison.

Since then, this woman says still experiencing a “Calvary” and “torture” because it has thirteen years of litigation promoted by him.

It is what is considered a case of “querulous harassment”, which is the living victims trying to break the link with their abusers, but they do not, because they maintain the link through the use of spurious justice, explained Álvarez.

After insisting that “something is wrong when the victim ends up in jail and the perpetrator gets its objective of crushing a person who only seeks release him,” parliamentary has ensured that socialist “accompany Mary in the whole process” and insisted that justice “should not be given to those games.”

The order of imprisonment, which was completed last February 6, has been suspended until the appeal by Mary, who has so far gained the support of the Andalusian so that if finally enters prison, do not lose their jobs nursing assistant is resolved.

Mary has encouraged women who are in similar circumstances to yours “not believe they are alone” and “going out, talking and denounce these situations.” “If you stay at home, no one hears”, said.

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