In sport, in church, in schools, and, of course, in the family: sexual assaults on minors are present in our society.
It is to fight against this phenomenon that the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children (Ciivise), and in the wake of the publication of Camille Kouchner's book, "La familia grande", that the Ciivise is responsible for dissecting the mechanisms of sexual violence to make public policy recommendations.
Its listening platform was launched in September, but the commission is launching a new call to testify.
10% of victims in institutions
Since its first call for testimonials, the Ciivise indicates that it has collected some 8,200 testimonies. Of the first 3,800 analyzed in November, 80% concern incest, 10% of victims in institutions, the others in the public sphere. According to this small and unrepresentative sample, victims in institutions were on average 10 years old at the start of the violence. 3 in 10 have undergone them in a school establishment, between 2 and 3 in 10 in religious institution, 20% in summer camp.
For Isabelle Frechon, co-author of the “Violence under protection” report published by INED in 2021, “it is estimated that 31% of girls and 12% of boys placed have been victims of sexual violence, regardless of the perpetrator and when. », During their placement or before.
The Ministry of Sports has also set up a unit to fight against sexual violence, which in December had received 600 reports, after cases revealed in several federations.
A new call to witness
At the material time, the victims often did not dare to speak or were not heard. “I was eleven years old, I went regularly to a center for the visually impaired. A fifteen-year-old lured me into the bathroom and forced me to perform sex acts. An educator surprised us, I was relieved, I thought she was going to save me. In fact, we were both lectured. Nobody questioned me, listened to me, ”testifies a 30-year-old man today. “It continued, until the rape. The educators thought I was consenting. I was treated like a culprit. I lost confidence in adults, I kept a deep guilt and troubles ”.
Ciivise is launching a new appeal this Wednesday, particularly dedicated to victims within an institution, to testify through its site (https://www.ciivise.fr/), by mail or email (testimonies @ ciivise. fr) or in its public meetings across France.
Two telephone lines are also dedicated to collecting testimonies (0805 802 804 and 0800 100 811 for overseas), with trained listeners who can guide victims to legal aid or treatment.
Institutions still lacking protocols
“Every day we receive emails from people who have testified and say how important it was to them. Their words will allow us to document the strategies of the aggressors and build public policies for the protection of children. We need the words of the victims, it is our legitimacy, ”explains Judge Edouard Durand, co-president of Ciivise. “After the publication in October of the Sauvé report on sexual violence in the Catholic Church, we received more testimonies from victims in institutions,” he adds.
Isabelle Frechon believes that sexual violence suffered by children in care is "the most taboo form of violence."
There is a strong lead screed.
Young people needed us to stop the recorder to talk about it, they talked about it a long time after ”the facts.
Institutions lack a protocol to know how to manage cases, and children's testimonies are "minimized or received with suspicion", according to this researcher at CNRS.
In some cases, the aggressors and the attacked stay together in an institution, for lack of space elsewhere.
In others, it is the victim who is pushed away, resulting in more chaotic journeys.
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