O “lar Betânia” como acolhimento institucional às crianças vítimas de violência sexual no município de Santana – AP

Abstract

This work aims to outline a discussion about sexual abuse against children that takes place within the family environment, a model of violence that is based on taboos, secrecy, oppression and domination. The construction of childhood within a historical and social logic is an important factor for understanding how it ends up being bombarded by ideas of passivity, irrationality and subalternity that end up directing this group to a scenario of different types of violence. Within this discussion, the Sociology of Childhood is a fundamental theoretical field of this work in order to understand all this problem. As a methodological way, a field research is carried out at Casa de Acolhida Marcelo Cândia, popularly known as Lar Betânia located in the municipality of Santana -AP that works to support girls from 9 to 17 years old who live in a state of social vulnerability or who have been victims. of intrafamily sexual abuse. An interview was carried out with an 18-year-old girl who was in the process of leaving the Home, through her report it was possible to perceive that this type of violence is perpetuated through the pact of silence and how the family environment distances itself from the logic of protection and affection, because of this, the Institutional Reception presents itself as a way to guarantee that the victim can live in safety, having their rights guaranteed, although it still presents difficulty to be maintained due to the non-action of the public power.