Los medios de comunicación en la generación de opinión pública: Procesos judiciales en los casos de acceso carnal violento a menores de edad en tres casos específicos de Colombia.

Abstract

The research investigates the possible influence of the media of communication in generating public opinion on judicial proceedings on sexual violence against minors, three specific cases of sexual violence against minors are addressed high impact at national and even global level (as in the case of Yuliana Samboní) which open the doors of this research, let us precisely decipher whether the public opinion, social pressure and the power of the media have repercussions on something so important as a court decision to a child sex abuser. It analyzes how three major national media make full coverage of the news of three cases of sexual abuse of girls such as Yuliana Samboní, Angie Lorena Nieto and Génesis Rúa, are three cases that had great visibility and as these are many registered and unregistered cases in Colombia.