Sexual crimes such as rape or sexual abuse are crimes considered serious in the Mexican penal legislation, which are indicated in article 19 of the Mexican Political Constitution.
Article 19.-
The Public Ministry may only ask the judge for preventive detention when other precautionary measures are not sufficient to guarantee the appearance of the accused in court, the development of the investigation, the protection of the victim, witnesses or the community, as well as when the accused is being prosecuted or has been previously sentenced for committing an intentional crime. The judge will order preventive detention informally, in cases of abuse or sexual violence against minors, organized crime, intentional homicide, femicide, rape, kidnapping, human trafficking, theft of a home, use of social programs for electoral purposes, corruption in the case of of the crimes of illicit enrichment and abusive exercise of functions, cargo transport robbery in any of its modalities, hydrocarbon, petroleum or petrochemical crimes, crimes in the matter of forced disappearance of persons and disappearance committed by individuals, crimes committed with violent means such as weapons and explosives, crimes related to firearms and explosives for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as serious crimes determined by law against the security of the nation, free development of personality, and of health.}
What happens if I am arrested for this crime?
If you are arrested for this crime, the prosecutor of the public ministry will request that you carry out your process in prison, which means that you will be in a Mexican prison in what is resolved if you are innocent or guilty of the accusation made against you, this can take more than 1 year if you don’t have an adequate defense.
In Transparent Justice Criminal Lawyers we defend you
We know that an accusation of this type can seriously damage the name and reputation of people accused of this crime when the accusation made is false, that is why we seriously understand the social stigma that this can cause with your life and family, that is why We work with adequate protocols to avoid being in prison and support you in this hard process.
