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child abuse/rape/rape culture/law
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1)
Child sex abuse by family is framed as “incest” in French law. Incest isn’t illegal.
Currently there is no minimum age of consent.
The onus of proof falls on accuser to establish they did not “consent”
#MeTooInceste
#MeTooGay https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1359648006316953604
child abuse/rape/rape culture/law—
1)
Child sex abuse by family is framed as “incest” in French law. Incest isn’t illegal.
Currently there is no minimum age of consent.
The onus of proof falls on accuser to establish they did not “consent”
#MeTooInceste
#MeTooGay https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1359648006316953604
2)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/france-begins-to-confront-decades-of-neglect-of-incest-cases
Camille Kouchner’s memoirs speak of being a child in the political elite and the culture of pedophilia, sex abuse. The open secret of abuse from step father, Olivier Duhamel, constitutional expert, president post at Sciences Po
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/france-begins-to-confront-decades-of-neglect-of-incest-cases
Camille Kouchner’s memoirs speak of being a child in the political elite and the culture of pedophilia, sex abuse. The open secret of abuse from step father, Olivier Duhamel, constitutional expert, president post at Sciences Po
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Currently reporting is anchored around the demands by some in the Feminist Movement to create a minimum age of consent. The cases brought to make this point though fail to address the root causes of violence, the role of the state. Ex
TW rape/grooming https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210210-france-mulls-introducing-consent-age-as-sex-abuse-claims-pile-up
Currently reporting is anchored around the demands by some in the Feminist Movement to create a minimum age of consent. The cases brought to make this point though fail to address the root causes of violence, the role of the state. Ex
TW rape/grooming https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210210-france-mulls-introducing-consent-age-as-sex-abuse-claims-pile-up
After a 10 year legal battle to hold TWENTY firefighters to account for grooming, child porn, rape, gang rape of a 13 year old - despite evidence and admission of acts by defendants, the Courts still debated.
The age of consent is not the issue, the POWER to consent is.
The age of consent is not the issue, the POWER to consent is.
TW suicide/sexual violence
Guillaume T spoke out how at 17 years old, houseless, estranged from his family he was violated by Parisian official Maxime Cochard and Victor Laby.
Guillaume passed away. The article below is in French bt gives more info https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/mort-de-guillaume-t-hommage-emouvant-a-letudiant-decede_fr_60242432c5b689330e34a58a
suicide/sexual violence Guillaume T spoke out how at 17 years old, houseless, estranged from his family he was violated by Parisian official Maxime Cochard and Victor Laby.
Guillaume passed away. The article below is in French bt gives more info https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/mort-de-guillaume-t-hommage-emouvant-a-letudiant-decede_fr_60242432c5b689330e34a58a
6) Vanessa Springora wrote a powerful account and incitement on French literary society and culture in ‘Consent: a Memoir’. She spoke of the abuse framed as a relationship between 50 year old literary figure Gabriel Matzneff and herself a 14 year old. The deep pain she carried.
