In the month of awareness raising for the end of violence against women, the girl was publicly attacked by a man; she meets August Lilac
Fantástico (28) this Sunday exhibited, exclusively, video of a model being attacked by a businessman in a luxury gym in Sao Paulo. In the images, Thiago, the attacker, surrounds Helena, the abused woman, while exercising. After a while, he starts attacking her with thrusts, verbal attacks, spitting and pulling out her hair.
The case took place on the 3rd of that month, as the logs from the security cameras show. please note that August is known as “August Lilac”, a month of awareness and struggle to end violence against women.
At the Rede Globo program, Helena said she didn’t put her head down and, also protected by the academy’s employees and students, Thiago continued to attack her. The next day, the photos even show tufts of hair found in the room where the violence took place.
numbers that grow
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, data on violence against women, particularly domestic violence, have not stopped growing. This is because many of these women lived with their attackers, and because they spent more time with them, the attacks occurred more frequently.
According to the 16th Brazilian Public Safety Yearbook, produced this year by the Brazilian Public Safety Forum (FBSP), In 2021, 632 cases of physical assault against women were reported per day. Also, almost 600 thousand threats. When analyzed by state, São Paulo has the highest rate of domestic violence, with a record 51,955 last year alone.
Violence is not just physical
While it’s common to associate violence with slapping, pushing and other physical assaults, it’s not all about that, you know? Violence against women can manifest itself in different types., as required by the Maria da Penha law. Are they:
- Physical violence: anything that offends the physical health of the woman, such as beatings, suffocation, torture, wounds and even the throwing of objects;
- Psychological violence: threats, isolation, prohibitions, humiliations, manipulations, insults, among other behaviors that affect the psychological and emotional;
- sexual violence: rape, impediment to the use of contraceptive methods, limitation of the right to human reproduction, forced pregnancy and marriage, and forcing into sexual acts that cause discomfort or repulsion;
- Violence to property: control of money, extortion, deprivation of assets or economic values, intentional damage to goods and things, theft and non-payment of alimony;
- moral violence: accusations of treason, denunciation of intimacy, demotion for insults and humiliations, devaluation for the way of dressing and lying criticism.
how to report
Like any other crime, violence against women must be reported. So remember that even if the man is a father, husband, grandfather or stranger, he is above all an aggressor and needs to be punished.
In this way the August Lilac movement teaches to report crimes: call the toll-free and anonymous number 180, a channel active 24 hours a day. Remember the victim isn’t the only one who can report the crime, you know? Friends, family, and even neighbors can also make this relationship. Report it!
Source: Terra
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