Sexual violence
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An influencer and camp host launched the #MeTooAnimation movement on Saturday to warn of sexual violence in the environment of the supervision of minors. Hundreds of testimonials were received.
She was 7 years old. A noon, in summer camp, an animator “slid his hand between [ses] thighs and gently lifted her up to [son] crotch”. It took fourteen years for her to dare to put words to this sexual assault. On the #MeTooAnimation Instagram page, anonymous testimonies from victims of child sexual abuse in summer camps, leisure centers and other campsites are echoed ad nauseam. “I was 8 years old. […] The last evening, I wake up paralyzed. The facilitator lowers my pajama bottoms, the same for my panties. He puts fingers, it hurts. I want to scream, but I can’t.
At the origin of this movement is Anissa, student, activist and influencer on social networks. This 21-year-old woman denounced in early March in a TikTok video that went viral the behavior of certain animators. Herself a host since 2017, she has seen hundreds of testimonies surge under her video, prompting her to launch #MeTooAnimation on Saturday, in the wake of #MeTooIncest. Nearly 400…