Grooming, another pandemic faced by Colombian households during DURING 2020

Abstract

Grooming is a crime that involves the manipulation and seduction of children and adolescents through the Internet with the aim of gaining their trust and sexually exploiting them. The purpose of this article is to explain what grooming is, its modalities, who are the participants and what is how the behavior materializes; Therefore, this document is the product of an exploratory and descriptive investigation, which used documentary analysis as a collection technique. Therefore, it is explained that they were able to identify deficiencies in the national legal system as a result of the passivity of the Colombian state by not recognizing a denomination of the unlawful act, which generates an impossibility of carrying out measurements, so that the punishable is not identifiable as a risk of social impact on infants, it is so, that the reports issued by the judicial entities do not show the real proportion of its materialization, making it impossible to propose public policies to reduce the affectation of the rights of minors and the identification of the areas geographic regions of the country with the highest occurrence. The contribution of this article is the awareness that the first line of defense to protect minors from computerized pedophiles or groomers is in the criminal classification of the act, to define national policies that allow the uniform sanction of the active subjects, segment their modalities of action, initiate aggressive campaigns by judicial entities in the areas of greatest occurrence and advance national awareness actions with clear models of care for victims.