France: the recommendations of the Ciivise to better protect minors who are victims of incest
At the Jean Bru shelter, which offers specific care for children who have suffered from domestic sexual violence, in Agen, on December 10, 2020. (Illustrative image) AFP - PHILIPPE LOPEZ
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The Commission on incest and sexual violence against children (Ciivise), publishes, this Thursday, March 31, 2022, its interim report in which it makes twenty recommendations to protect children.
Recommendations from some 11,500 testimonies collected by this commission set up a year ago.
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According to a survey carried out by Inserm in 2021, one in 10 adults has been the victim of
sexual violence
during their childhood.
For the Ciivise, it is the whole “
chain of protection
” that needs to be strengthened.
For the Commission, the urgency is to identify the current victims, because each year, 160,000 children suffer from sexual violence.
“
We have to go get them
,” says the Commission.
We must not wait for them to come and ask for help, those on whom their attacker imposes silence.
Identify the existence of sexual violence in advance
All the institutions that take in children must therefore be mobilized.
The teachers, the nurses, the doctors, the social workers or even the educators must be trained, in particular in the so-called technique of systematic tracking which the Ciivise recommends.
"
Each professional must ask children the question of the existence of sexual violence
", even in the absence of evocative signs explains the report.
Doctors have a particular role to play, according to the Ciivise, which asks that they have the obligation to report child victims of sexual violence to justice.
The importance of repairing victims through healing
On the criminal level, the Civiise wants victims to be able to appeal the entirety of a decision.
Currently, they can only challenge the “
damages
” part, but not the guilt or not and the sentence.
Finally, these victims must be treated.
A reparation that involves specific care in psychotrauma and financial compensation.
And the Ciivise is also calling for the launch of a national prevention campaign.
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To read: Incest and sexual violence against minors: victims testify in Lille
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