Crimes against sexual freedom of minors committed by members of religious confessions

Abstract

We study the responsibility that arises from the commission of crimes against sexual freedom, especially of minors, by members of religious Confessions, both in the order of the State and in the confessional order –centering us in the canonical–, which is the one that has a framework a completely defined juridical law, highlighting the limits to the autonomy of religious confessions when it comes to purging responsibilities, both canonical and secular, for unlawful acts committed by clerics or the like, in a way that prevents that autonomy of religious confessions is perverted and constitutes an obstacle to the punishment of the guilty. For this, it is necessary to deepen the collaboration between secular and confessional orders.