The plot and its protagonists

a study of domestic sexual abuse in the city of Fortaleza

Abstract

Ahead of the increasing awareness of that in the family also children and adolescents and of the verifications of the most varied violence forms produce themselves and multiply practical arbitrary and absolute in power against, especially, of sexual abuse involving familiar, through denunciations, aspects of a violence had been displayed public - of parents against children - that always it existed, but during decades she was more restricted to the familiar privacy. To leave of this problematic one, the research “The profile of the children and adolescents victims for the domestic violence in Fortaleza in years 2000-2001” analyzed this type of violence and traced the profile of its victims. The present article analyzes the results of part of this research - the partner-economic and familiar profile of the children and adolescents victims for the sexually for domestic sexual abuse having as comparative sample the processes/ /denunciations of the S.O.S Child and Project Sentry of Fortaleza of years 2000 and 2001.