Evaluación de la imputabilidad en delitos sexuales cometidos por personas con discapacidad intelectual leve y trastorno de personalidad: análisis de un caso forense y discusión sobre criterios de atenuación

Abstract

Forensic psychological assessment of criminal responsibility in individuals with intellectual disability poses specific challenges due to its retrospective nature and the complexity of the psychopathological profile. This paper presents a forensic case study assessing the neuropsychological status of a 33-year-old male charged with two counts of continuous child sexual abuse and two counts of child pornography production. A multi-method, multi-source evaluation (including forensic interviews, document review, and standardized psychometric testing [RAVEN'S 2, STROOP, TESEN, RCFT, and MMPI-2-RF]) yielded a profile consistent with Unspecified Personality Disorder (301.9/6D10.2) and Mild Intellectual Developmental Disorder (317/6A00.0), with generalized cognitive impairment affecting abstract reasoning, inhibitory control, and executive functioning. The forensic formulation concluded that the defendant's psychological state significantly impaired his cognitive and volitional capacities at the time of the offenses. The competent Provincial Court applied an analogous mitigating circumstance of mental disorder. Threshold criteria for attenuation versus exemption, integration of multiple deficits (cognitive, volitional, and maturational), and implications for criminal policy in cases of intellectual disability with comorbidity are discussed.