Sonia announced it straight away: “I am a victim myself…” Her car had broken down for three weeks, she came by bike from Marquette-lez-Lille to join the mobilization organized this Monday, June 15 in front of the Lille courthouse, at the call of feminist and children’s defense associations. “The Lyhanna affair is one too many, we live in a pedocracy,” says this 50-year-old woman, sexually assaulted by her father for years. As a child, Sonia told herself that “perhaps it was normal, that it probably happened like that in other families too…” The abuse stopped when she entered middle school, “because I defended myself, but he continued to expose himself to me until I spoke to my mother about it at the age of 14,” she continues. She believed me, she forced my father to come and apologize, but she always blamed herself. »
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