Breathe
By Yohali Reséndiz
Let's talk about a topic that should occupy us as a society, the day of the child. And yes, once again we have to make uncomfortable those who insist on wearing a blindfold on their eyes and a convenient padlock on their mouths.
Let us put on the table the painful crime: child sexual abuse that is part of the reality of humanity and occurs everywhere: in homes, in the Cendis, public schools, colleges, in all social strata... and of course in the church that is not free from this dastardly and despicable action.
To write about child sexual abuse is to write about victims and victimizers. It is to address the pain of those who have been disrespected and whose souls have been broken and to whom we must not only seek to resignify the deep wound left in them, in them... the children, "the future of this great nation" - politicians proclaim - but to make a pact among us "the adults", so that this never happens again to any boy or girl in this country.
Therefore, I invite you to write to me at periodismoatodaprueba@gmail.com if you know of any case where a child is being abused or has been abused, and let's denounce it together.
I want to invite you to give courage to the courageous denunciations of children who point out those who have hurt them, let us denounce corrupt judges or public ministries, lawyers and insensitive and omissive courts, those who let sexual aggressors go free, whether they are the mother, grandmother, grandfather, father, stepfather, cousin or nephew, who cares, in the end they are aggressors....
We cannot continue to evade what is everyone's responsibility: child sexual abuse. A crime that in this country, out of every thousand complaints, only one hundred are brought before a court and only one will be sentenced.
We cannot continue to think that if it is not our son or daughter it does not matter, not even if it happened in a place where their children are not. Sexual abuse must stop and when we are united enough then we can say happy boy's day and happy girl's day.
Figures from organizations dedicated to children in our country tell us that three out of every four children between the ages of 2 and 4 -that is, in early childhood- are abused with corporal punishment and psychological violence exercised by parents, guardians and caregivers. One in five adult women and one in 13 adult men admitted to being victims of sexual aggression between the ages of 0 and 17.
Ladies and gentlemen: let's tighten our pants, let's tighten our skirts and let's close once and for all to child sexual abuse. Let's drop the shameful first place in child sexual abuse in the world.
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