Kast’s government granted 56 sentence reductions to child sex offenders2026-10-28Between March 11 and mid-September, the Justice Ministry issued 56 decrees reducing the sentences of people convicted of sexual offenses against minors; no judge was involved.Kast acknowledged that the state had failed the victims and accepted responsibility, but kept Justice Minister Fernando Rabat in office.Law 21,421, in force since 2022, excludes these convicts from the benefit; the debate centers on whether it applies to crimes committed before it came into force.The ministry departed from its usual practice of rejecting these requests and defending that decision in court; public documents show that similar requests had previously been denied.Undersecretary Luis Silva said the ministry had previously rejected applications, but the Supreme Court ordered some of those decisions to be reversed.Silva announced that the Ministry had suspended new applications for sentence reductions and was considering reversing those already granted; the Government is pushing for a reform to ensure that victims are informed and heard.No es que les falló el Estado: les falló el Presidente Kast (El Mostrador)Subsecretario Silva aborda polémicos beneficios carcelarios: “Cuando el Estado falla no basta con explicar, hay que hacerse cargo” (The Clinic)Subsecretario Silva se defiende por rebajas de penas y asegura que firmó "aplicando el criterio fijado por el propio ministro" (Meganoticias)La arrogancia del poder y el olvido de la responsabilidad (El Mostrador)Luis Cuello sobre Rabat: “Su permanencia se explica porque tiene la misión de procurar la impunidad” (Radio Universidad de Chile)INDH oficia a Justicia por rebaja de condenas: “Las razones que hemos conocido hasta ahora no son convincentes” (Radio Universidad de Chile)Au Chili, des aménagements de peine de pédocriminels et tortionnaires de la dictature plongent l’exécutif dans la tourmente (Le Monde)