La necesidad e importancia de implementar en el articulo 152 del código orgánico integral penal el daño estético facial.

Abstract

Aesthetic facial injuries are those malformations that compromise a person's right to physical, corporal, and psychological well-being, whether caused by sharp or cutting instruments, chemicals, guns, etc. Therefore, from a criminal, legal and medico-legal point of view, by applying a qualitative descriptive method, this research study helped to carry out an in-depth study and analysis of all the components, circumstances, and subjects involved in committing a violent behavior that results in a permanent injury to a person's facial aesthetics. The consequences suffered by these individuals include medical, psychological, emotional, social, and work-related consequences, leading them to a condition of uncertainty about their physical and facial appearance and thereby hindering them from carrying out their daily activities. Thus, the importance of this kind of injury is to be considered differently from others to be valued. That is, not by period itself but by its permanent damage caused to the individual and to obtain an integral compensation according to the damage caused to their facial aesthetics, proposing, if necessary, the compensation for the indirect economic damage. This is a reason for Ecuadorian legislators to typify this kind of injury within the criminal legislation, to protect the right to the physical, corporal and emotional integrity of the victims.