A first second The Parisian. An investigation published in the newspaper this Friday 19 April reveals that, for the first time in its history, the National Institute of Deaf Youth in Paris, a reference institution in the country since the end of the 18th century, is shaken by a case sexual violence. Two teenagers accuse a former student, now 18, of rape. He has been indicted.
The young defendant was sent to trial
The teenager is accused of raping his girlfriend several times in June 2021 in the co-ed bathrooms of the high school building, the complainant was only 13 years old at the time. The juvenile brigade subsequently collected the testimony of another girlfriend of the suspect, even 13 years old at the same time as the facts, those who accuse him of raping her, him imposing repeated sexual intercourse outside the establishment.
The young accused stated in police custody that such complaints were consensual and that the alleged victims had shown themselves “ sexually provocative “. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened a judicial investigation for “rape against minors”. Pending the conclusion of the investigations, the suspect has been placed under judicial supervision.
The end of an silence?
A case that caused quite a stir in the deaf community, because the silence had finally been broken. And with good reason, according to various associations, it would be” The tree that hides the forest », report colleagues from Parisian. Second Elodia’s mottoco-director of Coda France, the national association of children of deaf parents, “sexual violence is trivialized within the community”, she explains to the newspaper.
“I am 32 years old and when I interact with friends born to deaf parents of the same generation as my deaf parents – therefore born in the 60s – this violence was already known, known and recurring. A friend recently told me that her mother taught her to never go to the bathroom alone when she started school, because bathrooms meant assault and rape. »
Elodia’s motto.
Even more so since, according to a parliamentary report, 34% of disabled women have experienced physical or sexual violence from their partner compared to 19% of able-bodied women.
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