Colombia: Female victims of acid attacks go public with their stories

Virtually all cases respond to domestic violence. “Legally they are treated as personal injury and go unpunished by the difficulty to verify authorship,” he told AFP Congresswoman Gloria Estela Diaz. The legislator presented on March 16 a bill to criminalize these attacks, with imprisonment from eight to 30 years with no right to a reduction of sentence. Moreover, Bogota Councilwoman Olga Rubio introduced a bill to limit the sale of fatty, given the ease and low cost buy (2 dollars a bottle). “We will restrict the sale of phosphoric acid, nitric and sulfuric acids,” which are the most commonly used for these attacks, but have also occurred with gasoline, “said Rubio. The State Institute of Legal Medicine 55 known cases of women attacked with acid in 2010, while in 2011 was 42, according to figures peliminares. Read Article