Se trata del riojano Pagotto, quien trampeó la lectura del dictamen aprobado con modificaciones de su autoría para exceptuar a las familias que vendan a sus hijos "por necesidad".
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A libertarian senator wanted to open the door to the legalization of the sale of children
This is the Riojan Pagotto, who cheated the reading of the approved opinion with modifications of his authorship to exempt families who sell their children "out of necessity".
By Pablo Dipierri 05/07/2024
Senator Juan Carlos Pagotto, Lule Menem's man, cheated as an informant member of the Justice Commission in this Thursday's session and read modifications of his authorship as if they were the letter of the report approved by the majority, with the aim of approving the sale of children.
"Imprisonment of 4 to 10 years will be imposed on anyone who receives or delivers a minor by means of a price, promise of retribution or any type of consideration, if it is not a more severely punished crime," he reviewed with a file in hand, and continued: "The parent who delivers his child when there is a state of need is exempt from this penalty."
His speech scandalized the opposition. Senator Juliana di Tullio immediately requested an interruption and unmasked him: "You are not reading the report, are you, Senator Pagotto?" and added: "You are not reading the report, you are reading a proposal that you brought and it is in our seats but it is not the report."
Lule Menem's lieutenant in the Upper House excused himself by saying that the commission's report is "a guide" and that the discussion takes place in the plenary.
That response angered the opposition even more. "It is strange the treatment that you, as president, have given to an agreed opinion for this session and leave us on the benches modifications that you suppose we should vote on but no one knows or discussed," Di Tullio replied.
There are entire families that have eight or nine children, who have at some point, as they say, a child and if we sanction it, we leave the rest of the family without protection.
The discussion was lurid because it revolves around the modification of article 139 bis of the Penal Code. The Senate approved the law in general unanimously but, in the face of Pagotto's trap on the opinion promoted by the radical Carolina Losada and the Peronist Antonio Rodas, it was resolved that the file would be returned to committee to deliberate in depth on the articles.
Pagotto's self-confidence was scandalous. "There are entire families who have eight or nine children, who have at some point, as they say, a child and if we sanction it, we leave the rest of the family without protection," said the Riojan.
The text that had come out of the commission did not speak of exempting parents who "sold" a child "out of necessity," but contemplated the exemption in the event of "a situation of vulnerability, ignorance or altered mental faculties, except in those cases where antecedents related to the articles included in this Chapter are denoted." The legislative technique used was a little more careful than Pagotto's.
The argument of criminal lawyers and specialists would be that this wording facilitates or contributes to the search for missing minors, which according to Losada count 1777 in the country at this time.
The organization "We Militate for Adoption" appealed to its Twitter account to denounce the maneuver of the libertarian senator. "We learned that a version of the commission text with modifications was circulating," he posted this Friday, adding that those changes would have implied "the approval of a penal code that legalized the sale of minors."
The mothers and fathers who make up that association contacted the senators to warn them that, in the midst of the media repercussion of the Loan case, there was an attempt to enable the sale of children. The damage was avoided because the most experienced legislators of each bench prevailed so that the debate on the articles could be processed again in the commission, sealing the approval in general unanimously.
From a Peronist office they pointed viciously against Losada because he was more concerned that his initiative would not lose approval, as happened with Javier Milei's omnibus law in the Chamber of Deputies last February, when Martín Menem resigned without knowing the half sanction in general for the rejection of articles and subsections. "But then the sanction in general falls?" repeated the Santa Fe in the precinct, according to parliamentary sources, and added: "I wanted to continue with the law all or nothing."
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