Domestic aggressors to be get tougher punishments in Moldova

Chisinau, 28 July /MOLDPRES/ - Domestic aggressors will get tougher punishments, under the legislative amendments adopted by parliament to prevent and fight the domestic violence.  

The draft law sees that the “maltreatment, intimidation, depriving of essential means or objects for existence, neglect, insignificant harm to health is punished with unremunerated work for the community from 150 to 180 hours or 1-3 years of imprisonment.”  

According to the law, if the victims of domestic violence, including children, need psychological support, they will be able to appeal to rehabilitation centres. Also the hit person will be able to demand that the aggressor compensates the material and moral damage. If the aggressor is not able to pay it, the state will oblige him/her to do this.

“If they ascertain, within the criminal trial, that the victim of the domestic violence is in danger to be subject to violence or other illegal actions, including destruction of his/her assets, the prosecution body or the prosecutor will be obliged to intervene without delay to ensure getting measures on protection, including of children. At the same time, upon request, any contact of the aggressor with the victim, his/her children or other people depending on him/her, including by phone, correspondence or in any other way, will be banned,” the draft law says.  

Statistic data shows that 34 women and three children in 2015 died in the wake of domestic violence and another several thousand of people were harmed physically, morally and psychologically.   

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor A. Raileanu)