Requisitos que, en materia de abuso sexual de niños, niñas y adolescentes exige la Corte Suprema de Justicia para la validez de la retractación en Colombia 2008-2018.

Abstract

The main purpouse of this reaserch is to determine the requirements that the Supreme Court of Justice demands to validate the retraction in cases of sexual abuse of children and adolescents. To achieve this objective, it is important to analyze the conceptualization of the following terms; sexual abuse, sexual violence, retraction of offences, children, and adolescents. Furthermore, the legal record of the laws that protect minors. Also, the International treaties and the existing legislation promulgated by the Colombian State to safeguard the rights of children must be identified. Aditional to that, the Jurisprudential analysis of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Justice that discuss the requirements to validate the retraction is carried out. Finally, a fieldwork is developed in order to determine the number of complaints that have been made in the Fiscalia General de la Nación office corresponding to the Judicial Circuit of Pamplona between 2017- 2019, how many distributions have been done for crimes of abusive carnal access with children under fourteen (14) years of age and sexual acts with children under fourteen (14) to guarantee control judges and those of knowledge. Besides, how many sexological exams were performed in the province of Pamplona in the years 2017-2018. In order to investigate thoroughly, surveys and interviews were developed on the retraction of lawyers, specialists and law students in the Municipality of Pamplona.