The article brings considerations regarding the substitute of the bill of law nº 4.126 of 2004, which lays out the inquiry procedures for children and/or adolescents who are victims or witnesses of crimes. The search for the "real truth" is presented as one of its objectives and as an ideal which legitimizes the improvement of new inquiry technologies directed to children/young adults. The use of techniques of such nature implies on the approach of the child and adolescent as objects of investigation and not as subjects of rights.
truth; inquiry; children; adolescents