Increasingly, crimes against sexual integrity are committed against minors.
Scrolling through the news feeds, almost every day you come across information about the capture of another pedophile. It seems like the world has gone crazy. All human nature resists, does not want to perceive this information, does not want to know the details, wants to scroll through and forget. But this problem has been hushed up for too long, and, as experts say,it needs to be shouted and screamed about in order to attract the attention of children and their parents, and the perverts who have encroached on children’s innocence must be clearly and clearly made clear. that they will definitely be detained and everyone will be punished.
According to employees of the department for drug control and combating human trafficking of the criminal police of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, the problem of pedophilia is not new, it has always been there, it just had a latent nature. Crimes against the sexual integrity of minors before were investigated only on the basis of the complaint principle, and the victims and their relatives, due to their mentality, preferred to remain silent “about such things.” Now, at the republican level, an action plan has been developed to identify crimes of pedophiles, including using Internet technologies. Operational search and preventive measures are also carried out in cooperation with the police, the investigative committee, educational and medical institutions. And this brings results, which is why we have recently seen such a boom in identifying such crimes. But the peak of arrests has not yet passed.
Online and in reality.
Experienced police officers conditionally divide crimes against the sexual integrity of minors into online and offline pedophilia. “Fortunately, over the past year the number of rapes against children has decreased from four to two in the region. Offline crimes are usually committed by people from the victim’s immediate circle: relatives, adoptive parents, teachers, family friends. In the republic, several high-profile cases of attempts and seduction of minors by teachers, tutors, and coaches have recently been uncovered. There are often cases when uncles, friends or mother’s cohabitants take the slippery slope.”Employees say that in practice there have also been completely wild cases when fathers and grandfathers committed depraved acts with children.
But no less terrible and dangerous are online crimes, when through fake accounts criminals enter into conversations with children, fraudulently gain their trust and gradually, starting from completely innocent questions, move on to slippery and sensitive topics. “Children are very trusting, and criminals are good psychologists, they seem like teenagers and know how and what to put pressure on in order to gain the child’s trust and then get what they want.” . If they see that the child is pliable, they carefully move on from talking to a request to take an intimate photo, dance an erotic dance on camera, then make an erotic video, and so on. The child, probably in order to appear more mature and cooler, first falls for such tricks, and when he realizes that something abnormal is happening and wants to stop, he becomes dependent: the pedophile begins to blackmail that his photos and videos will be shown to parents, classmates, and teachers.
And the child, instead of telling adults about the problem, withdraws into himself in horror and continues to indulge the dirty demands of the pervert. And worst of all, he may agree to a personal meeting with a maniac. But, as operatives note, fortunately, in the region over the past year there have been no cases where crimes from the online format moved to offline.
Victim syndrome.
Children are ashamed and afraid to share their misfortune. They are frightened by misunderstandings, reproaches, reproaches, and ridicule. Often, while looking for help and sympathy, they face pressure from all sides, live with PTSD under constant pressure and feel guilty. But a mother will always notice changes in her child’s behavior, and here it is important for an adult to behave correctly. It is necessary to create the most comfortable conditions and in a confidential conversation, choosing the right words, gently but clearly make it clear to the child that he is not to blame for anything, console him, support him, say that he will be helped, and praise him for revealing the truth. And of course, you need to inform the police and seek help from a psychologist.
The republic has developed a mechanism to provide assistance to victims of sexual violence at any age. Brest law enforcement officers have a specially equipped room in which, in an informal setting, among pencils and toys, a team of child-friendly professionals unobtrusively communicates with the alleged victim and learns step by step all the circumstances of the atrocities. Having established the picture of the crime, it is also important for specialists to remove the “victim syndrome” and professionally work through the psychological aspect of such a negative sexual experience. According to world statistics, if the victim of a pedophile (and recently they are increasingly boys) is not provided with psychological help in time, then over time the trauma will come to light and in adulthood the former victim will develop a disorder of sexual preferences, or a tendency towards pedophilia. And operatives in the sphere of morals in the Brest region confirm such data with examples from their professional activities.
Adults are still ashamed to talk about sexual crimes against children. Parents are afraid of judgment from the outside and prefer to let everything go, simply blocking the depraved interlocutor. They are solving the problem “quietly”, fearing to tarnish their reputation and spoil statistics, and some teachers also doubt the veracity of what happened. But the scary thing is that, isolating one particular child from danger, adults do not stop the pedophile, who has several dozen Internet victims on his hook, but only contribute to his criminal activities and convince him of permissiveness. Formally, such silence is not criminally punishable, but we must understand the degree of danger of pedophiles and realize our involvement and responsibility for his crimes against other people’s children. After all, as experts say, A PEDOPHILE WILL NEVER STOP!
As confirmation of this, there was a case in one of the regional centers of the region, when an adult woman told how 20 years ago she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Thanks to operational search activities, the rapist was found. The operatives posted his photo on the Internet and asked everyone who suffered from his criminal atrocities to respond. Due to the public outcry, more than 10 victims of that pedophile contacted the police, some of the victims were even from other regions. During the investigation, it became clear that this “respectable citizen and father of the family” also raped the 11-year-old daughter of his friends. And if not for the shame and prejudice, many victims could have been avoided…
Tender criminal.
There is no clear portrait of a pedophile as such. Perverts carefully disguise themselves as ordinary people. They cannot be visually identified in society. Conventionally, law enforcement officers say, this is a male individual of 30-50-55 years old, usually unemployed or occupying some kind of working specialty. But there are often cases when a pedophile has a higher education, more often a pedagogical education. They can be either avid bachelors or husbands with a solid history of family life and children. Due to the abundance of free time and the “unbearable lightness of existence,” such subhumans surf the Internet and are drawn into watching child pornography. Sexual orientation is disturbed. Further – more: after watching enough disgusting content, you want to try it yourself. And this disorder of sexual preference often results in child abuse. “It is important to understand here,” law enforcement officers note, “that the pedophile does not act through rudeness. “He is as sweet and affectionate as possible” and lures fragile children’s souls into his obscene networks with pleasant conversations and gifts.”
As the results of a psychological and psychiatric examination show, only a few of the detainees are mentally insane, while the rest are aware of their actions and are aware of their consequences. But at the same time, perverts are not afraid of punishment: hoping for the silence of the victim, they are sure that they will never get caught. But, as you know: no matter how long the rope twists…
On the territory of the Republic of Belarus there is an Internet resource kids.pomogut.by in terms of the possibility of obtaining useful information, online consultation, including within the framework of the “hotline” and other assistance on protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation
According to information from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Brest Regional Executive Committee.
