“I was saying something and everyone was saying something else”: the enactment of a victim of children and adolescents sexual abuse in criminal justice

Abstract

The article analyzes the enactment of the victim of “children and adolescents sexual abuse” in the criminal justice system of Fortaleza. For a person to be recognized as a victim of “children and adolescents sexual abuse”, it is necessary more than a sexual situation imposed by adults. It is necessary to enact a dossier able to convince the judge that there was an event with the characteristics typified by the Brazilian Penal Code. It is in enactment a crime that a victim is being enacted. However, the elements expected by are not always found criminal justice system, which it can form disbelief in justice and repentance of the complaint.

Keywords

• Vítima
• Abuso sexual infantojuvenil
• Justiça criminal
• Crime.