Child abuse is a subject that particularly affects Éric Métayer. He had already directed the film Tickles in 2018 with the actress Andréa Bescond. This time his TV film, broadcast Wednesday November 20 at 9:05 p.m., is inspired by the book by Laurence Brunet-Jambu co-written in 2019, with his niece Karine, victim of deprivation, beatings, insults from her parents and rape by a family friend. The work relates what the child was confronted with, but also the action of her aunt to get her out of this hell in the face of the indifference, even the hostility of certain people from child welfare. , the police, the justice system and his own family. “The more I reported, the more I was the witch since everyone called me that, says Laurence Brunet-Jambu, I was named like that by my parents, by justice”. The person preventing her from going around in circles was even taken into custody and “suffered a reminder of the law”, she remembers. “I was forced to sign a letter of apology, she continues, both for the rapist and for Karine’s parents and “I had to ask for forgiveness from the courts for all the problems I had caused.”
Managing to “move forward” despite everything
“The opening to speech is made”, according to Éric Métayer, but is it really heard? “If you don’t listen to him and if there’s no action, we won’t get out of this.” he warns. “It’s gangrenous everywhere, it’s something to take head on,” according to him and to do so, it is young people who can take up the issue. For Laurence Brunet-Jambu, we need to look better at children. “It was clear that Karine was suffering and unfortunately the institutions saw nothing,” she said.
“We don’t pay enough attention to how children behave, how we look at them. It’s not just what they say, it’s also who they are.”
Today, Karine is doing well and has since become the mother of a little girl herself, “the most beautiful thing that happened to him in his life”, as reported by Laurence Brunet-Jambu, who made Karine her sixth child by adopting her in 2016. Moving forward is the message from this long-abused child who decided to take her happiness into her own hands. body. “I managed to put that behind me, I will never, ever forget it. But it’s behind me and I’m moving forward. We have to move forward.”
After the TV movie Reports broadcast, Wednesday November 20 at 9:05 p.m. on France 2, Carole Gaessler will host a debate entitled: “How to protect children in danger?”
