Os caminhos e descaminhos da proteção às crianças e adolescentes em situação de abuso sexual em São Borja

Abstract

The present course conclusion paper had as a main objective to analyze the process of institutional reception of sexually victimized children and adolescents in the municipality of São Borja, in order to give visibility to this expression of violence, and in that way contribute to the theoretical debate and qualification of the interventional processes. The work was guided by three specific objectives: To identify the noted determinations that involve the situations of sexual abuse against children and adolescents, to unravel the trajectory that the child, adolescent and the family go through in the search for the guarantee of their fundamental rights and to uncover by whom these abuses were committed. Considering the objectives presented in this study, the research was oriented by the qualitative matrix being classified as explanatory,with the following explanatory categories of reality: sexual abuse, institutional reception andthe intersectoriality. For the analysis of reality, the study was guided by the dialectical-critical method based on four categories: totality, historicity, contradiction and mediation. For the data collection, direct and documentary research was used, where the reception forms and the attendance / monitoring reports of ‘Casa de Acolhida’ (reception center) were analyzed. Interviews were also conducted out with 5 subjects from the child and adolescent protection network of the municipality of São Borja, in which a form was applied with open questions, elaborated based on the guiding questions and the specific objectives of this study. To the data analysis, the content analysis technique of Bardin (2009) was used. The research contributed to identify that in São Borja the path taken by sexually victimized children and adolescents is arduous and tortuous, where there’s no defined flow that eases the families to understand the totality of the service care. In addition, it was observed that the absence of actions for the perpetrators of sexual abuse and of effective work with the families, are propellers for the institutional reception, since the process of overcoming violence and developing the protective function of the families lacks of policies and qualified services and attentive actionsto the complexity of the phenomenon, not fragmented and constituted under the prism of integrality.