An incest commission submitted 82 recommendations to the French government on Friday to protect children from child criminals, raising in particular the question of the inadmissibility of child rape, as in Sweden, Norway, Belgium and Canada.
Systematic identification of vulnerable children, expansion of the definition of incest to include cousins, reimbursement of psychological trauma treatment for all victims: it describes a global public policy against a scourge that authorities say affects a child every three minutes.
It also opens the possibility of reflecting on the “inadmissibility” of the crime, without associating it with its seriousness, but with its specificity: uncovering incest often takes decades. “We must not confront children with a day after which they can no longer seek justice,” says their co-president, children’s judge Edouard Durand.
This 730-page report was prepared after three years of work and the collection of approximately 30,000 witness statements.
It is “a massive public order and public health problem that destroys and destroys a large number of children. The consequences for society are significant and child criminals are extremely dangerous,” explains Mr. Durand.
Although, according to the Commission, 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence every year, the question must be systematically asked of every child, by the school nurse or doctor and as part of an “annual screening and follow-up appointment”. Being and development.
It calls for widespread detection of sexual violence in certain situations: teenage pregnancies, hospitalizations of children and young people after a suicide attempt.
While 70% of complaints of sexual violence against children are dismissed, the Commission wants to improve judicial treatment.
She ultimately asks to continue her mission while the government remains uncertain about her future after December 31st.
It was launched in January 2021 by President Emmanuel Macron to respond to the avalanche of testimonies under the hashtag #MeTooInceste triggered by the book “La Familia Grande” by the lawyer and academic Camille Kouchner, in which the incest of her Father-in-law was revealed, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, about the author’s brother.
In recent months in France, numerous works in cinema, television and literature have dealt with incest, which was long taboo, such as “Triste Tigre”, the Prix Fémina-winning story by Neige Sinno.