About sexual assault on children Recently, Bao, a senior executive of a listed company, was accused of sexually assaulting a minor adopted daughter, Xiaolan, which once again ignited the focus of public opinion.
According to statistics, 317 cases were reported by the monitoring media in 2018, involving more than 750 children victims. Among the cases of sexual assault on children, 210 cases were committed by acquaintances, accounting for 66.25%. However, there are about 7 similar cases behind each report.
Number of victims: 30 million and 3 million
There are not a few cases of sexual assault such as Xiao Lan. According to the statistics of "girl protection", 317 cases of sexual assault on children (under 18 years old) were publicly reported by the media in 2018, and more than 750 children were victims (if it is stated that there are more than one victims but no specific number is specified, it is calculated as three). From 2013 to 2017, there were 125, 503, 340, 433 and 378 cases of sexual abuse of children under 14 years old reported by the media every year.
The Research on the Construction of Child Protection System by the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Beijing Normal University · Family and Children Research Center pointed out that 1/10 of 300 million children may experience some form of sexual abuse before they reach adulthood, and 1/100 of them may be subjected to intrusive sexual abuse. When the social workers of Children's Hope True Love Project were teaching in a remote mountain area, more than ten girls came to social workers for guidance after class, and three of them had been sexually assaulted by acquaintances many times over the years! Most parents have not realized how close the danger is to their children. In addition to realizing the importance of prevention education and sex education, the most effective way to protect our children is to be ready at all times to deal with the crime of sexual assault on children that is not far away from us!
The consequences of sexual assault on children
Autism, amnesia, headache, suicide, promiscuity, addiction
Children who were sexually assaulted in childhood, after major stimulation of the brain, showed some aspects of development stagnation and retardation, and severe traumatic reactions, such as emotional numbness, memory loss, personality split, etc. Therefore, their external behavior patterns are quite different from those of ordinary children. Improper treatment of sexually abused children will lead to a large number of adolescents with anti social and aggressive personality, which will foreshadow social problems such as future social violence, theft, robbery, provocation and trouble making.
What will happen to the injured children after the bad guys catch them?
It is necessary to intervene in a timely manner to the sexually abused children and tell them how to accept themselves again. After being sexually assaulted, many children will show introverted, closed, aggressive, precocious, and even sexually assaulting others. It is easy to be considered hopeless and abandoned.
However, their hurt hearts are extremely eager for love. Through companionship and professional assistance, they are hopeful to change and return to normal life.
What are we doing about the rescue of sexually abused children?
The Children's Hope for True Love Project was established in 2013, and has provided in-depth assistance to 64 cases, including girls and boys.
1. Case assistance, visit one by one, provide children with psychological guidance, life companions and other support needed, link legal and medical assistance, education and vocational training resources, and unite multiple professions and departments to help children who survive sexual assault recover social functions, live, study and work normally, recognize and rebuild self-esteem, and realize self-worth.
2. Children protection publicity activities. Through children and adolescents' curriculum and parents' classroom, we will carry out publicity activities in communities, schools, etc., to popularize what child sexual assault is, how to detect relevant signs in daily life, and effectively prevent and respond to it in the first place to children and parents in different regions.
3. Provide legal aid, and build a guardian angel volunteer legal service team based on the network of public welfare lawyers; Providing legal advisory services; Undertake legal aid cases; Hold training seminars for public welfare lawyers; Timely advocate and promote the reform and improvement of relevant laws and policies.
4. Asylum services, children hope to set up a professional shelter for sexually abused children - "True Love Home" in 2018. The shelter is far away from the urban area, and the location is private. It is equipped with 24-hour guardianship and companionship to provide living accommodation, maternal and infant care, medical care, family, social work services and psychological counseling services for girls who have suffered sexual assault. Three girls are currently being sheltered. In March 2020, preparations will be made to establish a shelter in Guangzhou.
5. Private peers committed to the development of young people and children provide training support, jointly provide the most practical help to Chinese children and families who have been sexually abused, form a coalition of Chinese people to protect children, and thus arouse the attention of the whole society to children who have been sexually abused, and promote the establishment and improvement of relevant national systems and regulations.
Our achievements:
Helped 64 sexually abused children in 7 years;
65 lectures on child sexual assault prevention;
More than 500 individual visits;
Received more than 100 requests for help;
More than 100 volunteers participated;
The seminar on abused children in China was held three times.
The above data is not spectacular, because each case requires multiple in-depth companionship and rescue.
Project Execution Plan
The project plans to benefit more sexually abused children through professional case assistance; Provide legal aid services by linking relevant departments such as the public security, procuratorial and judicial departments; Let more people know how to protect children through child protection related publicity activities; The establishment and improvement of relevant national systems and regulations will be promoted through the promotion of child protection alliance, which will arouse the attention of the whole society to child sexual assault.
(1) Service time: long-term
(2) Assistance area: the whole country
(3) Recipients: sexually abused children
Legal aid partner: Qianqian Law Firm, which was founded in September 2009 relying on the former Women's Law Research and Service Center of Peking University Law School. Full time lawyers of the Law Institute are dedicated to carrying out public legal service activities as an institutional feature and development model, and are committed to promoting the improvement of the rights and interests of vulnerable groups in society, including children, women, the elderly, the disabled and migrant workers, as well as the development of public legal aid and the reform and improvement of relevant laws and regulations.
Project budget
Note: The funds raised by the project on the micro public welfare platform will be used preferentially for the implementation of legal aid for sexually abused children.