Abuse
Campaign against sexual violence in schools begins
The schools in Germany should play a stronger role in combating the sexual abuse of children. The abuse officer Rörig called, in this context, alarming Figures.
The abuse officer Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig called on all schools to do more to combat sexual abuse and also about hazards through the use of modern media to educate. Abuse cases at Berlin’s Canisius-Kolleg, or in the monastery of Ettal had shown that the educational institutions “dangerous places” could be for students.
Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig
Rörig expressed on the occasion of a new national Initiative “school against sexual violence”, which takes place in cooperation with the 16 ministries of education and culture. The abuse officer called shocking Numbers. In 2015, there have been 12,000 of View. “We have to assume that in any school class are at least one to two girls and boys affected by sexual violence,” said Rörig. It is not only about abuse in the school itself, but also sexual violence in the family, where, according to Rörig, as before, the majority of these Attacks take place.
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More than 30,000 schools take part in
The Initiative is intended to move educators to take a closer look, to ask, to develop protection concepts. “In Germany’s schools should not be weighing in on sexual violence,” said Rörig.
Rörigs Initiative, for which he has all the 16 ministries of education and culture of the countries, and the free school carrier, to ensure that teachers are equipped to the more than 30,000 schools, at least with the information material. As the first Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia will start this coming Monday. There should be at each school an information folder sent. Plans are also in the country five conferences.
By the end of 2018, the remaining Federal States are to follow. Rörig said, he assume that this year three more countries to come until mid-2017, half of the Initiative has connected. The goal is to put educators in the position that you take Precautionary measures and in case of suspicion can really act.
jk/stu (afp, dpa, epd)