During the month of August 2022, approximately 30 people were prosecuted for the crime of child sexual abuse, in the city of Cumaná, Sucre state, as reported by Victoria Bello, director of the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children. and teenagers.
He emphasized that in the capital of Sucre abuses have no distinction of social strata, because this crime is commonly committed by the same parents, uncles and other members of the family nucleus.
In this sense, Bello stressed that during the month of August the number of complaints for this punishable act increased indiscriminately. He assured that the perpetrators have already been charged by the Public Ministry.
“From receiving a daily complaint, we went on to have more than 15 daily, having in the month of August that closed with about 30 people prosecuted for this crime,” Bello pointed out.
In this sense, he urged the population to make the respective complaints in the face of any situation of violence or abuse against infants in the offices of the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, located in the Fundasucre building on Perimetral Avenue. of the city of Cumaná, or before the Public Ministry or security agencies, stressed that they are anonymous and free.
Promote campaign against child sexual abuse
Given these facts, Bello said that in the capital of Sucre since last July a campaign against child sexual abuse has been promoted, due to the high rates of this crime in the jurisdiction.
In this regard, he stressed that this preventive measure undertaken by the institution together with the Public Ministry and the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Tinta Violeta, seeks to protect the physical and psychological integrity of minors.
Under slogans of No to pedophilia! and No more child sexual abuse!, representatives of the aforementioned institutions are concentrated in the spaces with the greatest influx of people such as squares, shopping centers, bus stops, terminals, among others, in order to alert the community about this crime. that harms the social development of the little ones.
In this context, Bello stressed that during the deployments talks are also held, information leaflets are delivered and vehicles are painted with preventive messages, aimed at raising awareness in the population.
“It is a wake-up call that we are making due to the large rates that have been registered in our city of Cumaná of abused children and adolescents,” he said.
Likewise, he stated that they will continue to promote this campaign in communities and education centers, in order to reduce this crime in the locality.
“We will continue to make the call of our institution and today we add more wills to raise awareness in the population of this crime that causes so much psychological damage, and that is affecting our children, nephews and the people we are closest to,” Bello said.
Provide psychological care to victims
For her part, Yuvisira Rincones, state coordinator of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Tinta Violeta, emphasized that the organization provides psychological care to parents and child victims of sexual abuse.
“From Tinta Violeta we are in charge of the social, psychological and legal care of these fathers and mothers. Psychological care is also intended for these parents, to teach them how they should take care of our children, and to the children who unfortunately are in this situation who have stumbled upon this crime, we are helping them through psychological therapies », he pointed out.
