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THE BATTALION
MONDAY. SEPTEMBERS, 1980
Research trying to find, then help incest victims
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — Eight-year-old
Tami tells in her child’s words how
Daddy touched and kissed her and
how he warned her not to tell
M onnny.
It went on for three years. Now
she is undergoing therapy at a San
Diego Child Sexual Abuse clinic.
Tightly clasped hands expose nails
bitten to the quick. She has dark
streaks under the eyes. The lines on
the young face represent the marks
left by nights of staying awake on
guard against the possible return to
her room by her father for one more
sexual assault.
It is impossible to estimate the
actual number of youngsters who,
like Tami, are victims of their own
parents and unable to find security
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and safety even within their own
homes.
Experts agree, however, that
cases which finally reach the ears of
authorities barely scratch the sur
face. Now that there are laws on the
books making it mandatory for the
reporting of such incidents, they are
hopeful they will be able to reach
and help children before their ex
periences leave permanent scars.
“It is common knowledge in the
field that incest is one of the most
under-reported types of child
abuse,” said Dr. David Sears, tech
nical information specialist of the Na
tional Center on Child Abuse and
Neglect in Washington. “We can
make a national estimate of60,000 to
70,000 cases, but we consider this a
basement figure. Other experts as
well feel this report figure is too
low.”
Sears said the number of reported
incest cases has almost doubled from
1976 to 1978.
Child Victimization Study Highlight
report — gives a profile of the incest
offender.
and I think we’ve just scratched the
tip of the iceberg there. ”
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“All professionals are listening to
the children more now and listening
to them in terms of maybe it really
did happen and not that it is just a
fabrication on the part of the child to
get even with a parent, ” said Gerald
Vernon, director of San Diego’s
Child Sexual Abuse treatment
program.
Sgt. Bill Dunn, head of San Diego
Police Department’s Child Abuse
team, said reports of molestation av
erage one a day in San Diego. In
1979 there were 293 reported cases.
San Diego was targeted by Drs.
Marvin Bohnstedt and Peggy Smith
of the Social Research Center of Sac
ramento for a study on child abuse.
One of the results of their study — a
He is “most often a natural father,
an unrelated male, or step-father liv
ing with the victim’s natural mother.
While many are unemployed, the
typical suspect is working, several
are employed in white collar jobs.
Average suspect age is 32, and victim
age 10 or 11 years. The molestation is
most likely to be reported by a family
member other than the victim.”
Researchers say the incest victim
may suffer a variety of traumas: often
has trouble sleeping, may have
nightmares; is unable to eat properl-
y; often becomes emotionally un
stable; may regress in behavior and
become introverted.
“Up until very recently,” said
Smith, whose study is funded by the
National Center on Child Abuse,
“we have assumed that incest is
something that only happens to girls
and now that we are making it
acceptable to talk about, we re find
ing out that there are an awful lot of
young men who are molested also.
Girls experience difficulty in
establishing normal relationships
with boys, the study continues. They
may become runaways or truants,
may occasionally turn to drugs or
prostitution or may even attempt
suicide.
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By ROBERT H. CRABBE
United Press International
PEKING — In Peking, the school
day begins when you sit down at your
desk with your hands clasped behind
your back.
Our woman teacher says good
morning and starts the lesson.
She speaks only Chinese, of
course. For the past year I have been
going to the Chinese International
School in Peking, where I never
heard a word of English.
Its job is to teach foreign children
in China to learn Chinese.
There were 18 of us in our clas
sroom, all about 10 or 11 years old.
Three are Americans. The rest came
from North Korea, Tanzania, Sierra
Leone, Peru, Japan, Italy, Romania,
Ireland and France.
All are children of news persons,
diplomats, or foreign experts work
ing in Peking. Most foreign kids go to
embassy schools. We were in this
one because our parents thought it
would be a good idea for us to learn
Chinese.
The school works. I did not know a
word of Chinese when I started in
September 1979. By the time school
was out, I could understand most of
what the teachers said. I could go
around Peking shopping and using
buses to travel. I could talk to the
Chinese kids.
It would take another year to be
come really good at Chinese. I would
like to have stayed longer.
We shared our playground with a
Chinese primary school. Both of us
were in red brick buildings.
We foreigners were a little bit
spoiled. Our building was nicer than
theirs and its washrooms are better
than most in Peking. Yet the Chinese
school is better than many others I
saw.
We often did sports like soccer
dirty and nobody ever goes there.
The whole year I was there we never
had an air raid drill.
In class it is different from Amer
ica. When the teacher talks, you hold
your hands behind your back. You
put them on the desk only when it is
time to write or to read a hook.
To ask the teacher a question, you
raise your hand by putting your
In class it is different from America. When
the teacher talks, you hold you hands behind
your back. You put them on the desk only
when it is time to write or read a book.
with the Chinese kids. We never saw
them outside school. They couldn’t
come to our apartments in the diplo
matic compound. They didn’t invite
us to their homes.
The two schools have a brick wall
around them. At the start of the year
it was painted with slogans from
Chairman Mao. Now some of these
have been erased.
Inside are a basketball court, a
playground and a small soccer field.
This year the Chinese paved the bas
ketball court and a part of the play
ground for small children. The rest of
it is dirt.
Under the playground is a big con
crete bomb shelter. It could hold all
the children in the school. It is very
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elbow on the desk. You never hold
your hand above your head.
Besides being students we were
also janitors. Each day after school
three of us swept and dusted the clas
sroom. In the morning we mopped
the floor before school started.
We called our teachers only
“laoshir, ” the polite Chinese word
for teacher. We never called them by
name. I don’t know the names of
most of them. Neither did the other
kids.
Besides Chinese, we had art, sci
ence, math, music and sports.
Most kids also study English. The
Americans don’t have to do this.
The teachers who aren’t married
live in a house on the school grounds.
They have an old woman who cooks
for them. The others come every day
by bicycle. In winter you can see a
big pile of cabbages by the teachers’
house. Cabbage is one of the few
vegetables you get in Peking in win
ter. I guess they ate a lot of it.
We went to school six days a week.
Monday through Saturday.
Tuesday and Saturdayafte
My mother and the'other
asked why they didn’t han
Tuesday afternoon andle
Saturday. The teachers
wasn’t the Chinese way.
In the morning before®
had us do slow, gradej
physical exercises. A Chines
a platform led us. I
In cold weather theysoid
would have us run aroundlM
A Chinese kid earning a rail
the way.
Late in the morning, scU
ped for five minutes, a Hj
played music, andwemassia
eyes.
Chinese textbooks haul
covers. The quality isjwi
learned to make book mi
them out of magazine papen
tect them.
Twice a month we would]
half a mile to an old movielk
see a film. We went eveuft
or snowed. My favorite fii
“Ten Days,” a pictureabw
Chinese kids lost in thecirl
There were seven North
in the whole school, sivlrn
girl. They all wore the bria
scarf of North Korea’s Coni
Club for kids.
Every day at theendofsdi
six boys gathered at thegakB
marched together backtoiOi
rean Embassy. Thegirlwas®
home on her own.
At the end of the year M
prizes to the three kidsincB
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and a North Korean boy. Igm®
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