La Corte Constitucional, la JEP y los niños

AuthorIván Garzón Vallejo
PositionProfesor Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad de La Sabana

La reciente decisión de la Corte Constitucional sobre el proyecto de ley estatutaria de la Administración de Justicia en la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (No. 8 de 2017 Senado - 016 de 2017 Cámara) ha suscitado en la opinión pública una inesperada avalancha de críticas porque la Corporación declaró la inexequibilidad del artículo que señalaba que las penas restaurativas serían aplicables a quienes hubieren cometido cualquier tipo de delito sexual contra niños, niñas y adolescentes, y que a los infractores de tales delitos se les aplicarían las penas y sanciones contempladas en el Código Penal, sin ninguna clase de beneficios o subrogados penales, judiciales y/o administrativos.

Vamos primero al efecto, y luego a la causa. Dos cosas, en mi opinión, explican la indignación ciudadana: una percepción y un fetiche. La percepción de que la JEP es una justicia hecha a la medida de las FARC y que es previsible que los mayores responsables de crímenes atroces no recibirán condenas ejemplares sino, en el mejor de los casos, irrisorias. El fetiche, que sólo...

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