Da violação à (tentativa de) proteção: análise antropológica da atuação de um conselho tutelar nos casos de abuso sexual infantil.

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the role of the Guardianship Council in cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents and analyze how the protection system for these victims occurs in the daily life of the TC from this tension between law and reality, seeking unveil the meanings given to this situation by the actors of protection. The ethnographic research was carried out at the Guardian Council of a municipality in the metropolitan area of João Pessoa, mainly through participant observation that went beyond the daily routine of the organ to follow up the case of Seu Alberto, a man accused of abusing more than nine girls in the neighbourhood. where do you live. The anthropological analysis, in turn, shows that from the TC's principles of action in its relations beyond the law of the ECA, the agency acts in the midst of neglect, devaluation and tensions, which consequently leads to an attempt to protect the child and adolescent victim of child sexual abuse ineffective.