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We are here to help families who have lost a child to a sexual homicide gain greater access to justice.

How do we fulfill this purpose?

I. Serving families

With a comprehensive intervention model that provides timely, specialized, free, and quality support to families who have lost a child to a sexual homicide.
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II. Impact on
public policies

Through the formulation of public policies that guarantee effective exercising of the rights of child and adolescent victims of sex crimes, as well as their families.
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I. Serving families

Since 1998, Fundación Amparo y Justicia has developed a comprehensive intervention model —including legal, psychological, communicational, and social components— aimed at supporting families who have lost a child to sexual homicide.
This model allows for the provision of timely, specialized, free, quality, and ongoing support to parents, grandparents, and siblings, so they can face the consequences of victimization.

What serving families looks like:

Legal representation and services

Legal representation and services in every case thanks to a team of attorneys with extensive experience in processing and litigating rape cases involving child and adolescent homicide. The victim’s family is accompanied and supported throughout the entire criminal prosecution, while seeking the maximum sentence considered in Chilean laws. This has made it possible to obtain heavy sentences in 44 cases that have been represented by the organization since its inception.

Afterwards, whether sentences are served is monitored, and families are represented before Parole Committees, Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court if there are motions filed by the convicted individuals’ defense team.

Furthermore, since 2018, the Foundation’s legal team has represented families before Parole Committees when the individuals convicted of these serious crimes apply for parole. Our broad experience in processing and litigating these cases has allowed us to present necessary precedents for demonstrating that these individuals are not rehabilitated nor prepared for life in society.

Specialized psychological support

Specialized psychological support is provided to help families work through the painful experience they have suffered, which contributes to their healing and helping them rebuild their lives.

This support to families is given not only during the crisis stage immediately following the occurrence of the crime, but also throughout the grieving process, and psychiatric support is provided when necessary.

Through a collaboration agreement, the Foundation works in conjunction with the Victim Support Program of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security through its nationwide assistance centers.

Social support

We provide guidance and promote the empowerment of families and correct use of public networks through various different actions.

We support higher education for parents and siblings of victims, and provide them with career guidance and help them apply for State scholarships and support throughout the educational process. This makes it possible for many to attain a career that makes them more employable and to gain access to higher incomes.

Access to housing is another area of social intervention. In this field, multiple efforts are carried out in collaboration with regional SERVIUs.

In 2023, 105 people belonging to 39 families received support in healthcare, education, housing, work, and social security.

II. Impact on public policies

We identify problems, propose different solutions, support implementation processes and/or assess public policies focused on building capacities that strengthen the response from institutions.

Our 25 years of experience working with families and representing child and adolescent sexual homicide cases has allowed us to have an impact on public policies by:

Designing and implementing specialized training programs

We conduct awareness and rights outreach campaigns

Developing assessments, regulatory analyses, and other studies

Preparing recommendations for legislators and decision-makers

The Foundation’s role in implementing Law 21,057 on Videorecorded Interviewing

To contribute to the proper implementation of Law 21,057 on Videotaped Interviewing, whose objective is to prevent the secondary victimization of child and adolescent victims of sex crimes and other serious offenses, Amparo y Justicia collaborates by training interviewers and instructors, sharing information on regulations, and preparing studies and technical reports that contribute to decision-making to improve the formulation of public policy. 

In 2007, after learning first-hand about the experience of a girl victim of sexual assault who had been interrogated more than seven times by police, prosecutors, and health officials, the Board of Directors of Fundación Amparo y Justicia decided to advocate for a solution so that the institutions of the criminal justice system would treat victims better.

Thus, the use of a system of videotaped interviewing was prompted, which is employed internationally and prevents secondary victimization.
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The objective of this academic program is to contribute to professionals and officials from the justice system specializing in and staying current on the investigation and prosecution of sex crime cases against children and adolescents.

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