The Secretary of State for Children, Adrien Taquet, is in favor of a "clear prohibition" of incest, which is not a "question of age" or "consent", suggesting to review the threshold of 18 years prescribed by law.
“From my point of view, this threshold of 18 years will have to be reviewed.
Whatever the age, one does not have sexual relations with his father, his son or his daughter ”, declared the Secretary of State in an interview with AFP.
Under the law of April 21, 2021, adopted after the turmoil caused by Camille Kouchner's book La familia grande published a year ago, the judge no longer seeks to assess consent in sexual relations between a young person under the age of 18 years old and an ascendant.
"Incest is prohibited and it is not a question of age"
"The law is to issue clear prohibitions in society: incest is prohibited and it is not a question of age, it is not a question of consenting adults", argues Taquet.
“We fight against incest, the signals must be clear.
This raises technically complicated legal questions, including the relationship between an adult girl and her stepfather, for example.
This question should be carefully studied by the Ciivise ”(Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children), he added.
Taquet underlined that "since this re-entry, all academies and all school directors have been instructed to set up a detection of sexual violence".
Necessary work with associations
While the associations demand that information meetings on sexual violence be organized in all schools, he regretted the absence of "a national association able to go to all classes in France to talk about this. ". "Associations are faced with difficulties entering schools: some school leaders may be resistant to these subjects being discussed in front of children, these are subjects that frighten, not only the educational community, parents too, ”he notes.
"They want to be sure that professionals will know how to react if a child claims to be a victim", explains Adrien Taquet, while the government has been labeling for a year "the associations that intervene in this field so that school leaders know who they are. can apply ”.
The government is also carrying out this work with the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
"The mayors intervene on extra-curricular time, it is necessary to activate all the levers, given the depth of the evil", argues the Secretary of State.
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