Enfrentamento do abuso sexual contra crianças e adolescentes no contexto de pandemia do Covid-19: subnotificação e serviços disponíveis

Abstract

The present work deals with the issue of sexual abuse practiced against children and adolescents in Brazil, raising information on how the exacerbation of adult power towards these social subjects generates very serious violations of rights. Its general objective was: to collaborate for a critical reflection and the confrontation about the cases of sexual abuse practiced against children and adolescents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In its methodological course, the approach was carried out with works and authors that approach the theme, through a survey and bibliographic and documental review, from which the concepts of violence, sexual abuse, intrafamily violence and how the whole process of violations of rights affect the lives of these subjects. In the same way, data collection and analysis were carried out in official protection tools, on the statistics involving this public and the violation suffered. The study also sought to bring visibility to intra-family abuse and how the Covid-19 pandemic contributed significantly to the increase in violence, as this public began to stay longer periods of time in their homes and without contact with the main places of violence. support for the execution of the complaint. We sought to promote a discussion beyond the historically prejudiced opinions and the blaming of the victim in the crimes of abuse, which are widely permeated in the common sense of Brazilian society, in the intention of collaborating so that this historical taboo one day comes to an end.