The cases in which minors attack their parents increase. Taking into account the paralysis of Social Services and mediation, this may have been a key factor justifying this increase.
The Juvenile Prosecutor's Office has had access to the Albacete Tribune to obtain these data from 2020, where it was seen that there were 39 cases of violence against parents by minors, compared to 27 in 2019.
Pandemic-related increase
Pilar Eslava Navarro, the deputy prosecutor for Minors of Albacete, assures that The increase in cases has not been directly related to the pandemic, since they expected that with the situation of all the family units being gathered in the same house for so long and with tension due to the situation that was being experienced, this would increase.
Although it is not directly related to the pandemic, it is related to the closure of Social Services and mediation. An avalanche of cases has not been noted, but rather there has been a progressive increase throughout the year.
Families who have seen mediation paralyzed for 2 or 3 months and families in which the minors were about to turn 18 are the ones who may have decided to report. Of the cases that finish successfully mediation has not found any complaint.
The data is within the statistics
The increase in cases has not been as expected, since exponential growth was expected with the establishment of the state of alarm and the paralysis of mediation services.
The data is considered to be within the normality of statistics, some years it increases more than others. There is no increase in cases of child-parent violence, and this 2021 the data is better, since hardly any cases are recorded.
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