“I believe that these changes to two articles of the Criminal Code - 131 and 132 - will help protect our children from repeat offenders in the future,” the expert said.

She noted that recidivists "committed crimes against children once again, only after being released after serving time for similar crimes."

“They go out and commit similar crimes again.

And it happens that a relapse has more serious consequences than the crime that preceded it.

That is, people go to kill a child, to kidnap, ”said the lawyer.

Earlier it was reported about the adoption by the State Duma in the second and third readings of amendments to the Criminal Code in articles 131 (“Rape”) and 132 of the Criminal Code (“Violent acts of a sexual nature”).

From now on, life imprisonment will be threatened for repeated sexual abuse of minors, either against two or more minors, or if it was associated with the commission of another serious or especially serious crime against a person.