The Council of Ministers will approve the partial pardon of Juana Rivas

The Council of Ministers plans to approve this Tuesday the partial pardon of Juana Rivas, the mother who was reduced to two and a half years in prison by the Supreme Court conviction of five that in 2018 had been imposed by the Hearing of Granada for the abduction of her two minor children, according to advance ‘The Country’ and has confirmed THE NEWSPAPER.

The measure that the Ministry of Justice has proposed to the Council of Ministers will mean a reduction to half of the penalty set for her by the Supreme Court in cassation, for which it would pass to be one year and three months, with which his sentence, which he is currently serving in the third degree, could already be considered settled. The penalty of disqualification from exercising parental authority would be commuted to another 180 working days for the benefit of the community.

Division of the Second Chamber

On November 4, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected to report in favor of granting a total pardon to Juana Rivas. As he did not reach an agreement to support a partial pardon, because eight of his 16 magistrates supported him and the other eight did not, his report to the Ministry of Justice included the conclusions of both in favor and against the partial concession that basically They consisted of accepting Rivas’s allegations about the mistreatment received or understanding that it was outside the Supreme Court to pronounce on the matter.

The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has finally brought to the Council of Ministers this Tuesday an even more favorable proposal than the one proposed by eight of the 16 magistrates of the Second Chamber, which went through reducing the sentence to two years in prison, therefore, having no precedents and with the time that it had already been in compliance, it would be considered settled.

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This Friday, the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, defended that the Government is taking “decisive steps” to guarantee that women and mothers like Juana Rivas “are not persecuted or criminalized for protecting their children.” “There are already public policies and a greater social awareness regarding many types of violence that are practiced, such as vicarious violence, which is direct gender violence because it is an instrumentalization of children to attack women where it hurts the most, which is with their sons and daughters, “Montero said.