Estupro marital infantil no Brasil: contextos, vítimas e perpetradores

Abstract

Violence perpetrated by an intimate partner is an important public health problem, which affects all age groups and begins in adolescence. In this context, the cover-up of child sexual violence through informal marriage is also highlighted, which ends up being supported in the family environment mainly aiming at maintaining a form of livelihood for the victim. The acceptance of child marriage is associated with historical and cultural issues, and has consequences such as financial dependence, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and propensity for domestic and sexual violence. Thus, this research aims to characterize the profile of child marital rape occurrences in Brazil, from 2014 to 2021. This is an analytical study, based on secondary data on child maritalrape from DATASUS. A total of 3681 cases of child marital rape were registered, with an annual average of 402.75 (±85.90) records. A typical profile was observed with brown, heterosexual, non-disabled victims aged between 13 and 14 years old, as well as perpetrators acting alone, teenagers or young adults, not drunk, on a recurrent basis, with the event being discovered when the victim was already in the second or third trimester of pregnancy. The presence of disability among the victims is also highlighted as an important motivator for the occurrences. Thus, child marital rape in the country is still a severe problem in the dimensions of public health and safety, as well as social and cultural, which burdens the Brazilian systems of control and combat.