Toms tutoring turned into sexual abuse

Toms tutoring turned into sexual abuse

The Education Inspectorate has an increasing number of reports of sexual harassment and abuse detected among students at school. Never before were there so many teachers and other authority figures in secondary schools involved.

Iva Bicanic, head of the National Center for Psychological Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, sees every year hundreds of teenagers in treatment who have had unwanted sexual experiences on the school grounds. Particularly among students, but (to a lesser extent) also between teacher and student.

"It is for most people an uncomfortable reality that adults who professionally for children care just to be able to them across the border," says Bicanic. "But it can. Sexual abuse is inconsistent true. In all shapes and sizes. "

ABUSE AUTHORITY
The Inspectorate sees more often than in the past, with one in three reported that the complaint is about sexual abuse by a teacher or other school staff. More than half of all abuse reports the case of a serious sexual offense: fornication, rape or sexual assault.

One in five of reports talk of sexual abuse with abuse of authority. As with Tom. He was after school tutoring by a teacher. Initially this helped: his grades went up and the parents were pleased with the personal attention to their son. began to grope. Tom was silent and gloomy. It was a good girlfriend who by and asked to whom he dared to reveal the abuse.

AFRAID TO REVEAL
"Because of this disparity is even more difficult for a student to them to come out," says Bicanic. "Especially for guys this is a big step. Boys also develop more mental health problems than girls as they experience it. "

Girls get more often face abuse than boys. As Lisa. It was initiated by a trainee English touch via WhatsApp. What started as fun, turned into a binding contact. The adolescent girl found it difficult to break this contact because of the difference in position. She also felt guilty because she had given her number.

Truancy
Lisa first began to avoid the lessons of the trainee. She soon informs all classes. She stayed a few weeks at home, no one understood the reason. Eventually Lisa took a friend in confidence and together they informed her parents. The school responded appropriately, making it possible to limit the damage. "But there are situations which are completely out of control," Bicanic know.

They do not so much see in the doctor's office an increase in abuse by teachers, but especially an increase in abuse among students. For example, the downside of sexting. Bicanic: "Again, the effect can be so great that young people are desperate or suicidal, isolate themselves, or do not dare to go to school with all its consequences."

http://www.metronieuws.nl/  by Anne-Fleur Pel Photo: Reuters