While they had by phone conceded they would get back to me as soon as possible, it is only today, 130 days later, that a reply arrived. And the reply does not actually address the problem.

On June 15th I asked:

In the name of transparency for publicly recognised Non Governmental Organisations I would like to know the links and/or partnerships between Missing Children Europe and the International Social Service, as well as the links between the national Missing Children partners and national members of the International Social Service. Can you please clarify any links, and contractual agreements, between organisations? Thank you.

Their answer today goes on questioning how 4 months ago the Google services integration on their web site blocked anyone whose firewall blocks Google services from accessing the MCE web site.

They do not respond, clarify, provide transparency as to the nature of their intra-organisation contracts or collegial ties, nor how these may affect and contribute to International Child Kidnapping and Child Sexual Abuse not being investigated.

As those who follow the blog know, I have recordings, documents and contracts of their Swiss partners active involvement in both kidnapping and sexual abuse of children. This includes how transnational and interdisciplinary collegiality (mafia) gets in the way at their Belgian chapter. How their organisation(s) do not perform their legal duties under international law and their child protection policy as a consequence. And how they are funded by perpetrators to be instrumental in the kidnapping and abuse of children.

But importantly, I can not help but notice on Sunday I wrote the the Belgian Parliamentary Investigation Commission on Child Sexual Abuse, highlighting the organisation, and 2 days later out of the blue an email arrives.

If you look at the timeline:

• June 15th email to MCE
• June 17th published MCE research
• October 22nd email to commission
• October 25th MCE responds, without addressing the issue

Of course this is pure coincidence?

I responded to today's by MCE received correspondence as follows:

June 15th 2023 notification of transparency access request on: >> the links and/or partnerships between Missing Children Europe and the International Social Service, as well as the links between the national Missing Children partners and national members of the International Social Service. Can you please clarify any links, and contractual agreements, between organisations? << No reply to date. 130 days. Missing Children Europe still has the duty to transparency. The questions remain unanswered, and not addressed in your below response.

They might get addressed by the Parliamentary Investigation Commission, or they might respond. In any case, the dice are out there, just waiting to see how they're going to be dealt with, and by who.

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Time for a little round-up on the ongoing Wednesday's Swiss court order violations by Swiss authorities, as introduction to the wider picture, and the upcoming Swiss elections.

On October 4th Crystel Graf's (the minister responsible for child protection and electronic communication) autoreply confirmed once again good reception of the correspondence denouncing the court order and human rights violations committed by her department. She has, as usual, still not taken responsibility. This has been ongoing for at least 30 weeks.

On October 11th, the ongoing court order violation. Children were not presented to the child protection services. Mr. Schallenberger who is responsible for making sure children are presented at 14:00 in the child protection care not even being at the office.

On October 18th Mr. Schallenberger was according to the secretary of the child protection services on holiday. No information had been provided beforehand. Accounting for week 30 of Swiss court order violations by the Swiss child protection services.

Arabelle Scyboz, still listed as the president of the Magistrate's Council which is the judiciary supervising authority, is still violating international and Swiss law on electronic communication and allowing the corruption by the judiciary she is responsible of. She is still banning electronic communication denouncing the heinous human rights crimes committed under her ultimate responsibility, and still denying access to justice.

All of this is possible under the watchful eye of the parliamentary judiciary commission. Their secretary is in copy of the various denunciations. Its president, Céline Dupraz, responded once, on May 8th, confirming:

sa mission de haute surveillance

Its mission of high surveillance of the judiciary, and …

respecter la séparation des pouvoirs

It prefers to respect the separation of powers then investigate the ongoing heinous human rights violations committed by the judiciary it is supposed to be the high surveillance authority of.

Basically the Parliamentary Commission who is supposed to scrutinise the methods and proper working of the judiciary in the interest of the public, says the judiciary can continue to be corrupted and commit human rights crimes.

The president of the parliament, currently Martine Docourt Ducommun, identically fully informed, has never responded or acted.

Nor has the minister of justice and currently acting prime minister, Alain Ribaud, ever responded or acted.

That in Switzerland the fish rots from the head is well documented throughout the +130 posts on the blog. Above is only a succinct overview.

The public who is voting these politicians into power has a universal right to truth about their state officials involvement in some of the worst human rights crimes, and actively helping for those crimes to be covered up. It is more then just monkeys “don't hear, don't see, don't speak” commission by omission to act.

Would you vote for a politician when you know of unalienable evidence of ongoing human right crimes, particularly against children, co-perpetrated and covered-up by those in power?

the veil of democracy and the rule of law used to validate corrupt votes

Under a veil of imposed silence it is the Swiss authorities who ensure the denial of the universal right to truth. The public and the press are terrorised and do not dare to speak up for fear of their authorities retaliating. Reminiscent of the German “wir haben es nicht gewusst” syndrome under the rule of the second world war Gestapo.

Being witness and having evidence to that, I open an additional chapter in my whistleblowing on Swiss authorities corruption. Why would I keep being scared to fully speak up, remain quiet, in the face of the Swiss wishing me dead and do everything to it anyway. Including attempts on my life.

It so happens that due to my privileged position I can document how the fraud in recent votes in Switzerland was organised. With the evidence I have, I can not attest the end result would have been different, but I can attest to systematic electoral fraud.

I can also attest to the prosecutor, Raphael Arn, having to investigate the electoral fraud while being under influence and manipulated. He has to function in his little village of Moutier, which claims the through electoral fraud obtained status of metropolitan city of the Jura. At some 7000 inhabitants, it surely is a joke. Those who follow the blog will recognise Raphael Arn's name from the child sexual abuse cases, and the documented transcantonal influence and threats by authorities he is under, to let child sexual abusers continue their perpetration against children.

I have it on recording, no wonder he did not want the recordings when I presented him the recordings. No wonder he has never acted on the by him received registered mail indicating his office's violations of various human rights.

You see in Switzerland, in light of any kind of wrongdoing, an independent outsider is not used to investigate. A local, subject to local pressures of interest, is used.

Corruption is second nature to the Swiss. Any government official in power has to take an active role in it. The Swiss even have a fancy name for their deliberately organised wrongdoing. They call it “interdisciplinary collegiality”.

Switzerland acclaims its status of superior democracy by ensuring its controllers are locked in this “interdisciplinary collegiality”. Being it the controllers of the parliament, of the judiciary, of the police, of the medical profession, ... all are subject to the same fancy worded mafia get along and shut up praxis.

Bring on the SLAPP's

Due to my eye problems, I've had the luxury of talking on the phone to a few Swiss whistleblowers over the last weeks. People who had the courage to denounce Swiss wrongdoing.

Not one of them knows any whistleblower who has not been persecuted by Swiss authorities. They all suffer SLAPP's – Strategic lawsuits against public participation - and human rights violations in Swiss authorities mostly successful attempts to silence whistleblowers, and allow for corruption to prevail.

The Swiss public believes firmly in their superiority. How can they otherwise when the press, the fourth power, can not speak up under threat of legal action and undue influence of prosecutors into what may and may not get published. The various Swiss journalists I talked to, evidence at hand, are all afraid of one thing: being SLAPP-ed.

As an example, in Switzerland, a criminal complaint alleging calumny takes precedence over any other criminal activity being performed. First the calumny is examined, only if the judiciary decides there is no calumny after years of proceedings, then the criminal activity may be possibly looked into. By then the combination of statute of limitations and destruction of evidence all account for a return to … calumny. Because if they can not condemn the wrongdoing due to the destruction of evidence and/or statute of limitations, well it must be calumny after all.

And for calumny proving, all tools are used. False witness statements, wrong translations, falsified documents, abuse of power, bribery, …

Another Swiss national sport is violating its international obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and the OECD Anti Bribery Conventions.

Swiss are so infiltrated in those organisations that whenever the international controlling organisms show a pointing finger at Switzerland, as per the OECD example, a simple alleged verbal report suffices to silence the reporting on Switzerland's wrongdoing.

Let me put that in layman's terms: Go to dinner, have a meal, and a pinch of intimidation and threats, and all is wrapped in silence.

In Switzerland, democracy and the rule of law are mirages. The ego of the perpetrators is more important then what they themselves call the “superior interest of the state in the manifestation of the truth”, or combatting corruption.

To the Swiss, the only truth that matters, is making sure no one dares to speak up against corruption, or be warned of the far reaching retaliation, transnational repression, persecution, including attempts on life.

The amount of illegally, without trial, detained people in Swiss prisons on the basis of daring to speak up against corruption is astonishing. Those who spoke up against wrongdoing and before being locked up arbitrarily decide to flee the country face life-long transnational repression and persecution.

Any access to foreign authority positions is abused by the Swiss, for example like I documented in the illegal SIS-II database usage. Which appears to be a systematic abuse in Swiss whistleblower cases.

The renaissance of the methods of the likes of the Nazi, the Khmer Rouge, the Junta, … is happening in Switzerland. The only difference is these human rights violating regimes came to power on the basis of a series of political and economic crises, whilst in Switzerland it happens with the hidden stolen wealth accumulated by these criminal regimes as collateral.

so who are the Swiss voting for coming Sunday?

In absence of the press, the fourth power, legal ability to report Swiss authorities wrongdoing to the public, and in presence of interdisciplinary collegiality disease throughout the controlling of Swiss authorities, I'll let you decide on how you think the Swiss elections will turn out.

I forecast it will be a team of same-old-same-old with a sprinkle of newly controlled interdisciplinary collegial individuals. Some shuffling of positions, and on the country goes for another 4 years of political and judicial corruption galore.

I already extend the invitation to all the world's pedophiles and child kidnappers: flock to Switzerland. The federal minister participates in the denial of child sexual abuse disease in the country, and Swiss kidnapping authorities have their international child kidnapping dictator uninvestigated for over 3 years now. Really, if you are an international child kidnapper or a child sexual abuser, the Swiss will treat you with welcoming reverence, and make sure your wrongdoing never gets actioned against, for if it should even only be mentioned, you have the superior calumny and other human rights violating weapons of mass silencing at your fullest disposal. Including the omerta'd parliament.

Tags: #Rights #Sexual #Kidnapping #Accesstojustice #Whistleblower

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I am battling with IT, unable to publish a clickable graphic page. So herewith a static picture, and this linked PDF of the picture with clickable links. Underneath the descriptions.

Crystel Graf

Crystel Graf is minister of child protection services, discussed.

• Contacted and complained to repeatedly about the chain of command silencing the corruption and criminality.
• Never acknowledged receipt other then holiday auto-replies. Never acted.
• Perpetrator through commission by omission of international child kidnapping and child sexual abuse.
• Mentioned and referred to throughout the blog.

Christian Fellrath

Christian Fellrath is director of the child and adult protection services, discussed.

• Was allegedly going to investigate/respond claims brought forward, but never did.
• Tried to justify his services actions with a false court order.
• Perpetrator through commission by omission of international child kidnapping and child sexual abuse.
• Mentioned and referred to throughout the blog.

Yanick Bussy

Yanick Bussy is director of the child protection services, discussed.

• Announced an investigation into his department’s wrongdoing, which never substantiated. Both in writing and on recording.
• Perpetrator through commission by omission of international child kidnapping and child sexual abuse.
• Mentioned and referred to throughout the blog.

Sophie Neuhaus

Sophie Neuhaus the Youth Delegate director, discussed.

• Written evidence of personal contact with the child kidnapping, child sexual and psychological violence endangering mother.
• Allegedly shares (or used to share) office with Yanick Bussy
• Never personally contacted.

Sandra Joseph

Sandra Joseph is deputy director to Yanick Bussy. (No need for discussion, never met or had dealings with)

• Former lawyer, hired to help alleviate the child protection service from the accountability of excess wrongdoing legal cases.
• Never met, reputation and gossip alleging violation of children’s rights in favour of women’s claims.
• Lawyer profile link
• Public profile link

Frédéric Schallenberger

Frédéric Schallenberger is the former child protection services director and current social assistant. (To be published)

• False reports, corruption, intimidation of prosecutor, befriends perpetrators and lawyers, endangers children in child psychological and sexual abuse, disclosed intimate details of international child kidnapping and manipulation of foreign authorities in Europe and particularly France, Belgium.
• Active perpetrator violating court orders, kidnapping children, dismissing children spontaneous accounts of child sexual abuse and requests for help.

Manuela de Montmollin

Manuela de Montmollin is a social assistant. (To be published)

• False report, corruption, endangers children in child sexual abuse, disclosed scheme of international child kidnapping and manipulation of foreign authorities throughout Europe and France.

Jérôme Erard

Jérôme Erard is social assistant and substitute to Frédéric Schallenberger. (To be discussed)

• Noted down child sexual abuse and would revert back after reporting to hierarchy.
• Never heard back. Inquired at secretary, left messages, and never called back either.

Adrien Omer

Adrien Omer is a social assistant and sporadic substitute to Frédéric Schallenberger when unavailable. (No need to discuss)

• Mostly kept unaware of the cases, simply executed a task in a courteous manner.

Nicolas Jornod

Nicolas Jornod is the regional child protection office manager. (To be discussed)

• Denied any wrongdoing or corruption in false reports without any investigation.

secretaries

The child protection services secretaries are well informed of the various cases. (To be discussed)

• A few false claims, corruption and interdisciplinary collegiality.

#Rights #Whistleblower #accesstojustice #Kidnapping #Psychological #Sexual

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Yes, I know!

I am whistleblowing about Swiss authorities committing the deliberate and organised crimes of Child Sexual Abuse and pay-for-contract International Child Kidnapping. I have some 500 hours recordings, documents, copies of contracts. I have on recording authorities planning the kidnapping of children abroad and finding it is better to leave children from time to time with their child sexual abuser then to protect them. I lived authorities dismissing evidence and make up false evidence in order to do everything they can to keep hidden their heinous denial of child sexual abuse. I am whistleblowing about Switzerland automatically retaliating, transnationally repressing and persecuting whistleblowers. …

Yes, I know!

But what happened today just makes a fully knowledgeable, seasoned and ardent fighter for Child Sexual Abuse victims in Switzerland sick. Switzerland is a country sick beyond help. Switzerland which we all take for granted as being the highest order in Human Rights protections and the rule of law, is the most despicable, victim blaming, disrespectful country in the world. By a long shot.

The report

The report titled “Rapport concernant le projet pilote sur l'histoire des abus sexuels dans le contexte de l'Église catholique romaine en Suisse depuis le milieu du 20ème siècle“ is a work by historians.

You read that right. In Switzerland Child Sexual Abuse is examined by historians. It is not deemed a contemporary problem, but a problem of bygone era's, to be documented by historians.

In addition, it is a pilot project. Indeed, there is such disbelief Switzerland could be a nation like all other nations around the world. Remember, elsewhere 1 in 4 persons has suffered child sexual abuse in their childhood. So the Swiss figured, let's do a test and see how it goes.

Kudos to the historians who dared to take the olympic, Herculean difficult task to lead a pilot project on a subject whose existence in Switzerland is totally denied. Monika Dommann and Marietta Meier, and their team, deserve more then the gold medal.

The pilot project by the historians of Zurich University started in January 2020, and was presented today, September 12th 2023.

Three and a half years to document 1002 cases for which as historians, they were given access to certain archives of bishops.

Their conclusions are manyfold, but a few stand out. Note I have these from press clippings. I have yet to read and verify the below press outburst in the 134 pages report. It not being in English, will take me some time to verify the press said the right things:

• more boys then girls have been subject to child sexual abuse in the church
• records have been removed and destroyed
• 1002 records were examined since the 1950's
• only the tip of the iceberg according to the reporters
• given the culture of silence and non reporting, most victims never dared to speak up

Most of these conclusions had already been alerted by the CECAR, who's been silenced and budget strapped so not much could come out of it. I published about this in the post on Which Swiss NGO's should act in matters of sexual violence on children?.

The shock

Some math to help the Swiss who love numbers when it comes to wealth and profit, but despise numbers when it comes to victims.

In France, the CIASE investigated 330.000 cases for 64 million people. It was admitted there that too many victims choose not to speak, and estimated at least 500.000 victims should be remembered.

9 million people live in Switzerland. Statistically, it means in Switzerland some 45.000 victims are to be expected. Of that, the pilot project looked at 1002 cases. Let's be harsh, and round it off at 2%.

Are the Swiss prepared to take the leap into shedding light on their heinousness as other countries have done? They're in for a shocker starting at 2% …

The church speaks

While the church admits it destroyed records, it pleads guilty for the crime of widespread child sexual abuse. I admit I am surprised about the rush-of-the moment flat out mea-culpa by the Swiss church, I applaud it. It is a first not seen in any other country where the church has always tried to embellish the problem.

Maybe the dissident voices of the church have not yet spoken? Let's wait and see in the coming days.

The Basel Diocese, Bishop Felix Gmür

I reached out to the researchers as I have evidence of wrongdoing in this diocese. Allow me to publish later, once I see whether they reach out or not.

In any case, the Bishop could not be clearer in the press fully acknowledging the church's responsibility.

The minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider speaks

And this is where I get angry. Really angry. A fine example of how in Switzerland the fish rots from the head down.

The Federal Councillor for justice, the justice minister, Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, is from the Jura.

Here is what she said:

An “alarming” but “significant” study which could bring us to action. this study is alarming, but it is also a significant step towards getting us to act.

I guess the Swiss commander in chief and its public need to think it through whether when faced with child sexual abuse it is appropriate to act or not? From experience I know they do everything to not act, until this day, regardless of 500 hours unalienable evidence.

she criticised a system “that at some point probably chose to protect the institution and the perpetrators more than the victims.

Let me tell you and confirm, I have the evidence the Swiss system systematically choses to protect the institutions and perpetrator to the detriment of victims. What disgusts most is that the report points out this culture, but the minister dares to doubt it with “probably”.

we're out of the emotional side and we have factual elements.

It characterises the total incompetence and incapability of the minister to have any empathy when faced with the most heinous crime that is child sexual abuse. Ask any child sexual abuse victim about emotion versus factual elements. Disgraceful at best.

There is now a real breeding ground on which we can work

As if civil society has not been crying out. Remember for example Incest according to Manon Schick, Mrs. Justice Minister? Wir haben es nicht gewusst!

The courts will now be able to respond to complaints or proceedings that take place as a result of this situation.

This is revolting. Switzerland's courts have been in a constitutional obligation to act for decennia. Last time I published about the monist system is no later then this morning. But the minister is right. I too call for Nuremberg to come down on Switzerland. A public parliamentary investigation into the Swiss authorities organised crime of pay-for international child kidnapping contracts and sexual abuse. But ...

we can only apologise

The minister confirms Switzerland is adamant at violating universal human rights.

• right to protection
• right to support
• right to non recurrence
• right to reparation

Err, no, you get a “we can only apologise” Sorry Mrs. Minister, your advocating against human rights leads to the conclusion you should resign.

but above all we must commit ourselves to ensuring that this is no longer possible

Probably the only “honest” part. Admitting the crime of Child Sexual Abuse is possible in Switzerland today, and that the Swiss “must commit themselves” against it.

those who have not dared to testify to find an environment where they can express themselves so that they can feel better.

WHERE? There is no where in Switzerland where victims can testify without being treated first and foremost as calumny perpetrators. There is no where in Switzerland where people may get help to feel better.

The country is devoid of professionals as per several international reports. Including the Swiss mental health industry itself, like ESPAS, admits there is a lack of adequate professionals.

So minister, unless you go deep, very deep, in your endless holocaust confiscated money pockets, and announce a full remediation programme so the competence in child sexual abuse can not only exist but be broadly, easily and financially accessibly available, you are saying to victims:

“screw you, you're on your own, deal with it yourselves, we, the state, are not going to help you, go away so we don't see you as we don't intent to help you anyway”

That, Mrs Minister, is your message to Child Sexual Abuse Victims today.

Mrs. Minister, you should be ashamed of yourself, and resign. No empathy, no recognition, no assistance for victims who you ostracise and leave to their own damaged person to deal with hurt inflicted upon them as children, silenced by authority, and alone.

Conclusion

The Swiss need to have their head looked into. Seriously.

This is no way for the highest official of a country to deal with a societally silenced and denied pandemic which is so big it is impossible to keep it unacknowledged. Yet the Swiss being interdisciplinary collegial at silence, no wonder omerta among authorities perdures. To then keep going the stigmatisation and dismissal of victims of child sexual abuse is criminal. And there is International law which constitutionally must be executed.

Violations of the Lanzarote convention. Violations of the Convention one the Rights of the Child and its optional protocol. Violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Violations of the European Declaration of Human Rights.

No, seriously, this lady's disrespect for victims of the most heinous crime, and the law, is totally unfit for office, and needs to step down.

The country is reputed for its cows and cheese. Today it is yet again showing its real face: a country of sheep mended by wolves who will not hesitate to kill any victim voice, and feast on its cadaver as example for all sheep to never dare to speak up against deliberate state organised wrongdoing in Child Sexual Abuse.

Tags: #Rights #Sexual #Whistleblower #Kidnapping #Psychological

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The use of buzz-words like discernment and consent revolves around concerns. Whether legitimate or not, their alleging forms the basis of excuses in our pigeonholing societies. The old adage of grasping extreme differences into homogenous categories everyone can understand and deal with. It is about variation and diversity versus convenience for courts and society. Yet the younger, the greater these disparities durably impact lives.

Do we need it? Do we need an “age of consent”? Or are we better off with anarchical concepts interpreted on an ad-hoc, case by case basis? Which criteria and definitions would, or should, we use? On what would we base them?

The law mixing up inquisitive exploration, discernment, consensualness, and all elements of criminal nature is clearly incapacitated to provide an easy, child centred answer.

neurology to the rescue

Neurological science has proven we are not “adult” until well into our twenties. Objective research, such as brain scan imagery, shows by age 18, the usual legal adult age, we are about half way in our neurological development from puberty to adulthood. A quick search will reveal the amount of confirming research on the subject.

Risk taking and dealing with risk taking consequences, our capacity to inhibit impulses or deal with influence, and more, are not fully developed at 18. Whether we like it or not, this involves and influences at least our psychological and sexual capacities. It usually takes until about our mid twenties to reach that point, but there is great individual variability in timing.

Children will inevitably explore and experiment sexual behaviour long before the end of development. During that time, various forms of influence, or worse, create victims who sustain life-long measurable neurological damage.

Who's responsible?

To me the question is not whether the age of biological ability to procreate, or an alleged age of any kind, should be used. Age should not come into the picture. The question to me is how those who are further on their path of life could (want to) take responsibility for those who are less so?

In many if not most child sexual abuse cases, victims have had to show, prove, to authorities there was unwarranted influence, abuse. In families, children who try to speak up most often are not heard, nor listened to.

Is that how we want a child, regardless of age, to start dealing with life-long far reaching measurable damage?

Who's responsible when a 15 year old child explores sexuality with a 14 year old? Do we consider it consensual because neither seems at that time to suffer from the experience? Do we punish the elder child, or try to establish which of both is the furthest developed? Or do we commit gender based violence by defaulting responsibility to the boy regardless of his development? …

None of any of these in my opinion.

Parents, family, the close circle of trust are responsible …

Who's responsible seems easily defined in the face of child sexual abuse. The parents, and the child circle of trust, are responsible, no? Yet if it would be easy, wouldn't child sexual abuse not exist?

Even parents fall prey to omission to act in favour of their child victim. For example by adults willing disbelief, generating life-long child sexual abuse consequences. I've published an open letter to my recently passed away aunt because it is I think an example of the responsibility of families.

Pictures and movies can capture and convey the spirit in ways scribbles can't. While it takes stomach, I invite everyone to watch the 2018 movie “les chatouilles” showing the childhood experience of artist Andrea Bescond. The movie was translated to English, titled little tickles. It is an exemplary example of how families may deal with Child Sexual Abuse.

A trailer of the movie can be watched on invidious.'

For me the movie was an eye opener on a politically incorrect truth. Mothers too are responsible for child sexual abuse. And the increasing data suggests women are no better then men at the subject.

In 2020 Kristin Jones as victim offered an inspirational ted talk: Why children stay silent following sexual violence.

Yes, some of the data she refers to might not be entirely up-to-date or correct. And there are a few gender discriminations creeping in there. But that's not important. Her sharing of her personal experience is an example testimony of what happens among the 90% of child sexual abuse cases, and sheds light on what needs to change.

So what should we do?

Wrongdoing will happen in the group of peers, among children. Repression against children is not the answer. Support, awareness and reparation are.

Based on the neurological evidence, the law should seek to increase the age of consent. As far as I am concerned, at least to 18 if not higher. The duly necessary exceptions to the law, acknowledging children's exploration, should render the age of consent wholly dependent on three pillars:

• objective assessment there is discernment
• establishment there is absence of elements of abuse such as influence and coercion
• exclusively within the group of peers

Surprise: International law and jurisprudence already allows for much of this “flexibility” concerning consensual sexual conduct in the group of peers. It is just we do not apply nor use it because no law can assess the individual level.

Only people who are truly competent and experienced can try to provide a personal opinion assessment. And there is a chronic lack of them, everywhere. And it is in the nature of people to make mistakes. Expert mistakes are as human as unpardonable in matters of Child Sexual Abuse.

In time, I am confident law will acknowledge neurology to determine whether an individual is of age of consent or not. Much like it has the capacity to objectively determine who has been victim of child sexual abuse, and who is falsely accusing.

my thoughts

Child sexual abuse has been part of humanity since times immemorial, and will remain part of our societies no matter what we do or wish to counter it. It doesn't mean it is not our duty to work and act against it.

The first change is how we all look at and deal with child sexual abuse.

Our adult culture and praxis of ego, honour, shame, silencing, ... being valued as more important then a child's needs being dealt with appropriately, must be stopped.

We don't need to teach children. We need to teach adults, parents and the close circle of trust in particular. Adults need to learn appropriate communication on the subject. Among themselves and towards children. An atmosphere of non judgement as a warm, secure, trustworthy blanket. In this way, also false allegations of children can be dealt with in a sane and future life constructive way.

Stand by children victims and children perpetrators. And particularly stand up against adult set ways and perpetrators. No matter the age consideration. And realise since as a society we condemn sexual abuse between adults, shouldn't we start with addressing sexual violence against and among children with as much fervour?

end of part 2 of this 2 part series

• part 1 { the era of age and sexual consent: the problem }
• part 2 { the era of age and sexual consent: a path to solution }

A shorter edited version is also available at HAVOCA.

Tags: #Rights #Sexual #Psychological

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But one can not turn a blind eye as to what this quest of definition de facto does. It creates a distortion of what age of consent truly (should) mean(s), forgetting who is at its centre, and why. It gets under my skin how people who have never been victim of child sexual abuse opinnionate, and so I have to write.

definition of age of exploration, discernment, competence, consent, ...

The notion of legal adulthood is throughout the world mostly set at 18 years old. Before you are a child. After you are an adult.

Virtually all countries criminalise as child sexual abuse any sexual acts before the legal age of adulthood.

Yet, in an incomprehensible twist, the legal age of exploration, discernment, competence, and consent for sexual conduct is subject to a race to the bottom, and does not (no longer) reflect the legal age in the vast majority of the world.

Out of the Shadows has compiled an excellent overview of global law and data, showing how bad the situation actually is. It is not because countries are party to conventions, that the age of consent across the world is of any intelligible coherence.

Arguably, the vocabulary used in law and praxis is anything but conductive to clarity, and subject of interpretation and debate, hollowing out the otherwise clear and strict adulthood limit.

I attempt to clarify, dictionary at hand, in the given context of child sexual integrity violations:

• Exploration = to investigate, study, or analyze. To become familiar with by testing or experimenting.
• Discernment = the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure. An act of perceiving or discerning something. Not only fully knowing, but fully understanding all consequences and accountability implications.
• Competence = the quality or state of having sufficient knowledge, judgment, skill, strength. Deemed ability to execute acts in discernment.
• Consent = fully and freely agreeing to an act whilst being in discernment of them.
• Abuse = any voluntary control or influence on consent or discernment.

The legal age associated to each is differentiated by field, such as marriage, medical, political, psychological, sexual, voting, ... In addition, law may differ substantially from rules and praxis in society.

Notions of coercion, empowerment, abuse, criminality, ... are layers of excelling complexity surrounding a seemingly fixed concept that adulthood is (or is not) at 18.

The main argument to lower the age of consent for children to engage in sexual conducts by experts saying children will explore their sexuality long before the legal age, and puberty increases this exponentially. Biologically we are capable of procreation at an increasingly young (marketed) age. While these are valid stand-alone arguments, it wrongly fuels the rat-race to lower the age of consent for sexual acts.

On our planet the legal age of consent for sexual behaviour today ranges from 11 to 21. For most European states the limit is 14 years old. No European state sets the limit at 18, the presumed adulthood.

A bigger version of the map

In various child rights fields children have legally reached the age of discernment long before. As an example, Switzerland:

• 18 years old = the law age of adulthood
• 16 years old = the law age of sexual consent
• 10 years old = repeatedly confirmed federal jurisprudence age of general capacity of discernment, used by courts to empower children to make their own life decisions
• younger = jurisprudence possibility of capacity of discernment subject to examination

In the current global situation the question is not if the next sexual activity age reduction in law will be defined. The question is when. I speak of this as deplorably criminal.

the quest of law: loosing all common sense concerning child sexual abuse

I posted about an important example before.

The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) along with UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially launched a new set of expert jurist legal principles to guide the application of international human rights law to criminal law.

The report is called The 8 March Principles

It advocates for the decriminalisation of child sexual abuse and lowering the age of consent:

Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them. Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.

The public disagreed loudly, both in social media and the press.

On April 20th 2023 the ICJ defended itself

The 8 March Principles do not call for the decriminalization of sex with children, nor do they call for the abolition of a domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex. Indeed, the ICJ stresses that States have a clear obligation under international law to protect children from all forms of abuses, such as child sexual abuse, including through the criminalization of such conduct.

Then why call to decriminalise it? It would appear many people misread(?) the report. This whilst the report is:

... aimed at offering a clear, accessible and operational legal framework and practical legal guidance to parliamentarians, judges, prosecutors and advocates to address the harmful impact of criminalization of certain conduct on health, equality and other human rights. They are based on general principles of criminal law and international human rights law and standards.

Now, if the report is aimed at offering clear, accessible and operational legal framework and practical legal guidance to parliamentarians, judges, prosecutors and advocates, then it surely, dangerously, argued the opposite.

I argued to rewrite as:

sexual conduct between involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex, who have similar age and the maturity to understand what consensual non exploitative sex is, may be consensual

But that is before which prescribed minimum age of consent to sex? 14?

Since this report, lawmakers have been active to criminalise child sexual abuse material online in a global initiative. A well meant frenzy providing to neglect the root of the problem and the vast majority of child sexual abuse cases.

end of part 1 of this 2 part series

• part 1 { the era of age and sexual consent: the problem }
• part 2 { the era of age and sexual consent: a path to solution }

A shorter edited version is also available at HAVOCA.

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A guest post I wrote for HAVOCA

The scene

The movie depicts a family/friends gathering in a home setting around a private pool. You see adults around the pool in their bathing suits, some with a beer in hand, seemingly having a relaxing afternoon among friends at home with the kids playing in the pool.

Everyone seems civil and swimsuit dressed. But… not for the faint of heart…

The to me seemingly adolescent girl playing in the pool is bent forward holding the pool side, whipping her bum up and down doggy style against the crutch of the to me pre-adolescent boy. They are ”playing” an adult act, with their swimsuits on. And they seem to enjoy themselves.

The adults move around the pool not even paying attention to the kids ”playing”. And one adult who seems to be lying down on a pool long chair is filming the family/friendly afternoon vibe around the pool, with the kids scene front and centre.

None of the adults reacts. Are you with me? NO ONE (RE)ACTS !

Where are your boundaries?

• Acceptable because the kids have their swimsuits on?
• Acceptable because they are kids among themselves, and there is no adult involved directly in the act?
• Acceptable because it is set around adult friends/family who surely are adequate in judging what’s right or wrong behaviour of their kids?

Allow me to enlighten you: Each and everyone of these adults ought to be in jail, and these children need protection from these adults as well as specialist psychiatric support.

The legal paradise

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child(1989), particularly its Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography(2002), and the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse(2010) are clear.

I’ve published about the legal requirements before, but in short:

Any person suspecting any child sexual abuse MUST report it. Once reported the concerned child(ren) MUST be protected immediately, and the alleged abuse MUST be examined. Any and all potential evidence MUST be retrieved, received and examined by authorities.

And if there is any doubt as to what is child sexual abuse, it is perfectly defined in the Terminology Guidelines for the protection of children from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.

While these international laws do not leave any room for interpretation and are executionary, … they have not diminished child sexual abuse.

It is not because these laws have their own international monitoring bodies overlooking states are correctly executing them that states, or their societies, endeavour to deal with child sexual abuse willingly or adequately.

The world is only painstakingly slowly opening up to the realisation child sexual abuse is a widespread phenomenon having no gender or status.

Particularly child sexual abuse in the family sphere, in the circle of trust, is still subject to the most stringent of taboos. And it allegedly accounts for up to 90% of all child sexual abuse.

The voiding of “must act” is prerogative by ourselves

Excuses are servants of silence in our societies. Honour and ego still win, fuelling deliberate amnesia and disbelief. “Other people’s distress” has more importance then the “victims hardship”. The “adult perpetrators” are more important then the “children victims”.

Perpetrators are depicted credible and deemed mentally stable. (Child) Victims by nature are unreliable in their account, and it is found their mental health is challenged. Whether right or wrong, this is the starting status quo a (child) victim faces climbing out of the shadow.

Where does that come from?

Imagine you, non victim, as adult, being pointed as a child sex abusing perpetrator. Or imagine someone in your family being pointed as child sex offender. You’d feel stigmatised for life. And sadly people do get condemned on false allegations, too.

Because none of us can tolerate that adult stigma, righting a wronged victim has no place. Evidence is willingly doubted, disbelieved and dismissed. Claimed credibility is virtually always made to win over victim experience under the “reasonable doubt” narrative.

Consequently, regardless of the very clear laws on child sexual abuse, other laws still get enacted to protect perpetrators. The millennia old praxis of omerta on child sexual abuse is made to prevail. Society is kept numb and dumb on the length and breath of the heinous phenomenon, so the adult public does not need to face reality.

Solution?

Booyah ! Meet the international, global, concerted initiative to end online child sexual abuse. A massive marketing machine is crunching everyone into the target solution: make a new law which makes child sexual abuse invisible again.

Yet the offline protecting laws exist, have existed for decennia, and never been properly executed. Online child sexual abuse has its origin offline, always. Existing laws include provisions against online distribution of child sexual abuse material.

Yet, we all stand screaming for these new anti-online-child-sexual-abuse laws in firm belief they will change the world. They will not change anything, other then probably facilitate the non execution of existing laws even more.

Shouldn’t we first deal with the 90% of child sexual abuse? Perpetrated in the close circle of trust, in the family sphere?

Why do we fool ourselves? Shouldn’t we need to change the culture and praxis? Come together as one voice, holding authorities accountable? And see to existing laws finally being executed?

Tags: #fesip #Sexual #Rights

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I'm not forgetting the series on Christian Fellrath, the ghost of Swiss child abuse, is not finished, read on ...

In January and February 2021 MS went public on the subject of incest. She acknowledged in radio and television interviews that even if her office has strong indications allegations of sexual abuse are not true.

International executionary conventions demand indeed for any allegation to be taken seriously, and chi