Colombia’s Senate approved a bill that allows judges to send sex offenders to jail for twenty years.
The law seeks to diminish the growing amount of sex tourists in Cartagena, the Coffee region, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, Bogota, Los Llanos and Choco and send those who have sex with minors or produce pornography with minors to jail with longer sentences.
According to senator Armando Benedetti (Partido de la U), the bill also allows to implement mechanism that can expel sex tourism from the mainstream tourism sites and helps authorities fight promotion of illegal sex on the internet and force airline companies to put more energy in the prevention of sex tourism through information.
The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives for a vote.