More schools in France are getting special mailboxes for children to flag abuse

From AP News:

A special mailbox for children to flag abuses was set up Thursday at a Paris primary school, a first in the French capital as part of nationwide effort to encourage more victims of sexual violence to speak up.

Some 360 such mailboxes have already been deployed across France, where children can drop letters that will be assessed by experts. The program is supported by child protection association Les Papillons, or Butterflies, and runs under the motto: “If you can’t say it, write it.”

It comes as activists are pushing to lift taboos that have long surrounded sexual abuse and make “shame changes sides.” That was highlighted recently during the trial that made Gisèle Pélicot, who was drugged and raped by her now ex-husband, France’s symbol of fight against sexual violence.

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