Member of the Italian Parliament, Carlo Giovanardi rises against the
vast mediatization given to the meeting of the European experts as regards
sexual abuse on the children, organized in Milan by IAD Bambini Ancora.
One child on six in Italy, thus a million children in ten years, was
victim of paedophiles, affirmed the statisticians. Only one case is
annually recognized by lot of 570 inhabitants in Italy, whereas one
case is recognized by lot of 344 inhabitants in the United States. The
percentage of American perverts is not higher than that of Italian:
the difference between the figures is explained in the quality of information
on the importance to denounce the cases and to look after the children,
rather than to prefer the ostrich policy, in sight to save "the
honor of the family".
The
diffusion of such data is likely to feed a collective psychosis by multiplying
the cases of indications of false abuse, has decreed Giovanardi,
who is obviously bad in maths and good in intrigues. he asks the Parliament
if the persons in charge for the association that has organised the
conference are professionals to whom the legal authorities entrusted
with expertises; which are, to the knowledge of the government, the
bases of the data spread by this association; what are the amounts supported
annually for the professional in charge and the consultations entrusted
so what he calls the "so-called experts on the matter."
The word was given to the experts who agree with those of the World
Health Organization (WHO), which affirm that 150 million girls and 73
million boys under 18 years would have undergone an imposed sexual relation
or other forms of sexual violence in 2002. The 2006 United Nations reportaffirms
that in 21 countries, developed for the majority, up to 36 % of the
women and 29 % of the men were victims of sexual violences during childhood.
Violence is hidden, not denounced and insufficiently listed says the
report.
Often, the parents, who should protect their children, remain quiet
if the act of violence is made by a spouse or a member of the family,
a more influential member of the society such as an employer, a police
officer or a leader of the community. The United Nations also dennounces
"the invisibility of violence", amongst other things owing
to the fact that there are no sure means or means inspiring confidence
to make it possible to denounce it. In certain parts of the world, people
do not trust the police force, the social services or the other persons
in charge, according to the report, which is indeed the case in Belgium.
When
data are collected, they are not always consigned in an integral, coherent
and transparent way. In particular, there are only few data on violence
in the institutions of care and of detention in the majority of the
areas of the world because, even when the incidents which occur are
known, the majority of the institutions are not held to record and reveal
this information - even with the parents and the children concerned.
Mr. Giovanardi can now file a complait against Kofi Annan, then Secretary
General of the United Nations, for having asked to give thorough consideration
to this study and to the mechanisms required for following up and monitoring
the implementation of the conclusions and recommendations it will adopt
on this important subject, as he therefore had ...taken the risk
to diffuse such data and feed a collective psychosis by multiplying
the cases of indications of false abuse.