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Another victory for common sense

25 March 2011

Thanks to Rollie Brook for bringing this to our attention:

The Senate has endorsed and approved repeal of Chapter IV of the Federal Penal Code, which deals with punishment and punishment of adultery.

Under Chapter IV, you could get two years behind bars (and lose your civil rights for up to six years) for adultery committed in the “conjugal home”, or if the behavior was “scandalous”.  HOWEVER, the offended spouse had to make a complaint, against both parties to the adulterous relationship, and… there had to be proof that the deed was done.  Not likely to be a reported crime.

If I believed for one minute in those “estimates” that show some high percent of Mexican crimes go unreported (not that crimes go unreported, but that the estimates mean anything — if a crime isn’t reported, was there even a crime?), I might be tempted to think this was just a way of making those numbers look better.

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