The Ciivice makes a first balance, two months after the launch of its platform. It highlights the impact of violence on the health of victims.
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In the space of eight weeks, 6,200 testimonies were received. This is the first review of the Independent Commission’s Testimonial Call on Income and Sexual Violence for Children (Ciivice), launched in September, without whether it is possible to determine how many different situations this figure global describes. “It may have both written, called, and responded to questionnaires,” recognizes the proceeding, officially installed in March. However, this influx of testimonials received in a few weeks confirms what existing investigations already demonstrate: the massiveness of these violence, which affects about 160,000 minors each year.
In detail, 1,200 calls were received by the specialized headset of the telephone platform (accessible at 0-805-802-804 for the metropolis and 0-800-100-811 from the above. sea), 1,200 couriers and e-mails were sent, and 3,800 questionnaires, accessible on the website of the Ciivice , have been filled. “80% of respondents to questionnaires have been victims of sexual violence in the family, 20% in the entourage, 10% in institutions and 7% in the public space,” says the Ciivice, which specifies that respondents can fill in several types of violence.
High proportion of women
Among the first lessons learned from the questionnaires are the kind of victims (nine out of ten responding are women), the high proportion of those who have already witnessed the violence suffered (nine out of ten) and the relatively delay Long before speaking: seven out of ten victims made it more than ten years after the facts. These elements “converge with the data that appear in the surveys in general population, however some offsets”, observes the sociologist at the University of Strasbourg Alice Debauche, a member of the Subcommittee “Research” of the Ciivice. Careful, it recalls that it is at this stage of “first quantitative elements, possibly subject to variation in the future”, the call to testimonials continuing again throughout the year 2022.
“Which is interesting in these questionnaires and the testimonies they contain, it is the level of detail provided”, which reveal consequences for the victims not necessarily appearing in the investigations in general population. The health impact of the sexual violence suffered in childhood is particularly eloquent: a victim in three reports having already made a suicide attempt. In women, one in three states gynecological problems and one in five a disturbance of its menstrual cycle or absence of rules.
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