--- On Thu, 10/1/09, JC Helary <brandelune at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: JC Helary <brandelune at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Sexual abuse statistics
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:14 PM
>
> On 2 oct. 2009, at 08:39, 123hop at comcast.net
> wrote:
>
> > Think about it. Are kids really going to report rape
> or molestation?
>
> And neighbors are not either. For different reasons
> obviously.
>
> > When I said it was common, I was basing this on the
> very large proportion of people I know who have described
> such incidents to me. None of these people ever brought
> charges.
>
> I can believe that. In Japan, where violence in school is
> pretty much an institution, I hear of very few cases where
> charges are brought, if any. The latest one (although it was
> about young adults, but the context was similar to cases
> with younger people) was a kid beaten to death by his club
> mates in a kendo practice. There is also the case of this
> young sumo player who was beaten to death by his school
> mates and his teacher and all that was discovered only
> because the father asked for an official autopsy (which is
> not automatic here).
>
> Cases of "ijime" (the word for bullying here) are so common
> nobody cares anymore. My wife was a victim of ijime for
> years (pretty much from the end of primary school to the end
> of high school) and she still feels the trauma.
>
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
>
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