Because understanding is essential for better action, Innocence en Danger provides you with 2 books as well as a series of explanatory documents on the legal and therapeutic level.

In this book, co-written in 2007 by Homayra Sellier, founder and president of Innocence en Danger International, and Serge Garde, investigative journalist, some points unfortunately remain relevant in 2025...

Child protection in France: a persistent failure

In France, a child is raped every three minutes, amounting to more than 166,000 victims per year. Despite the urgency of the situation, the protection system has remained inadequate for years.

Child protection services are underfunded, professionals are overworked, and reports pile up without any follow-up. Associations compensate for the state's shortcomings with meager resources, exhausting their funds without receiving any assistance.

Since this book was published in 2008, the concrete solutions proposed by experts have remained a dead letter. Ministerial promises have not been fulfilled, and the promised resources have never been allocated. On the internet, no effective protection has been put in place, and platforms operate with complete impunity.

This inaction has a considerable cost: impaired health of victims, compromised education, and legal and social costs amounting to billions of euros. Every euro not invested today generates ten more in compensation tomorrow.

While reforms stall and reports pile up, thousands of children continue to suffer in silence, and the cycle of violence risks perpetuating itself without adequate support.

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1962. 

Lolita by Stanley Kubrick

Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's eponymous novel: the obsessive fixation of a mature man on a 12-year-old girl.

1967. 

The Risks of the Trade, by André Cayatte.

A teacher is unjustly accused by several students

1971. 

Murmur of the Heart, by Louis Malle

A depiction of an incestuous relationship between a 14-year-old boy and his mother.

1978. 

The Little Girl, by Louis Malle.

The story of a photographer who falls in love with a 12-year-old girl

1988. 

Kung-fu Master, by Agnès Varda.

The relationship between a 40-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy

1992. 

For a Lost Soldier, by Roeland Kerboesch.

The relationship between an adult and a 12-year-old child.

1996. 

Sleepers, de Barry Levinson.

A depiction of sexual violence in a North American reformatory

1998. 

The Feast by Thomas Vinterberg. Jury Prize, at the Cannes Film Festival.

The revelation of the rape of a child during the birthday dinner of the incestuous father in Denmark.

1999. 

Eyes wide shut, de Stanley Kubrick.

An erotic drama evoking the existence of a secret, elitist society. Kubrick died suddenly during the film's editing.

2001. 

Clément, by Emmanuelle Bercot.

The relationship between a 30-year-old woman and a 13-year-old schoolboy.

2003. 

Mystic River, de Clint Eastwood.

A tragedy whose origin lies in the rape of a child.

2004.

The Woodsman – (with Kevin Bacon)

Mysterious Skin, de Greg Araki

The consequences for two teenagers of sexual violence suffered at age 8, by the same predator.

The Scarlet Ballets, by Jean-Pierre Mocky.

A portrayal of pedophile networks among prominent French figures. A privately produced film released in theaters. Distributed only on DVD.

2008. 

Doubt, by John-Patrick Shanley.

The nun who runs a private school accuses a priest of raping a 12-year-old student, before having doubts…

2009.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by David Fincher (Millennium: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Mikael Blomkvist, a brilliant investigative journalist, is hired by one of Sweden's most powerful industrialists, Henrik Vanger, to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, which occurred years earlier. Vanger is convinced that she was murdered by a member of her own family.

2011.

Polisse, by Maïwenn.

The daily life of a juvenile brigade in Paris

Michael, de Markus Schleinzer

The abduction and confinement of a 10-year-old boy in a cellar.

2012.

The Hunt, by Thomas Vinterberg

The tragedy of a teacher unjustly accused of pedophilia.

2013.

3096, de Sherry Hormann.

Inspired by the story of Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped at age 10 and held captive for 8 years.

2013.

Outreau, the other truth, by Serge Garde.

A documentary revisiting the Outreau affair. French television channels refused to broadcast it. Released in theaters and on DVD.

2015.

Spotlight, by Tom McCarty. Two Oscars in 2016.

A recollection of the difficulties encountered by journalists from the Boston Globe in writing and publishing an investigation into child rapes committed by priests (an investigation that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003).

2017.

The Keepers, de Ryan White

Television documentary series (Netflix). The investigation in Baltimore (USA) into the unsolved murder of a nun by three of her former students, sixty years later.

2018.

An impossible love, by Catherine Corsini.

Inspired by an autobiographical novel by Christine Angot. Incest, from the mother's point of view.

2018

Les Chatouilles, written and directed by Andréa Bescond and Alex Métayer.

An adaptation of the eponymous play (Molière 2016) which evokes the sexual violence suffered by Andréa Bescond in her childhood.

2018

The Revolt of the Innocents, by Philippe Niang.

In 2011, Gaston, a lively boy of about ten years old, was placed in an institution which would turn out to be a place of abuse.

2018

The Tale, de Jennifer Fox.

After rediscovering her childhood stories, a journalist must delve back into a painful past of sexual violence.

2019.

Foster Boy, by Youssef Delara.

A lawyer is defending a young man in a lawsuit against a foster care agency accused of concealing and orchestrating physical and sexual abuse.

2023

True Detective (3ème saison), de Nic Pizzolatto.

Arkansas police reopen investigation into the disappearance of two children 20 years earlier.

The Crowded Room (série), d’Akiva Goldsman 

Danny Sullivan is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York in 1979. Based on a series of interrogations conducted by the intriguing Rya Goodwin, this thriller unveils Danny's life, from the mysterious elements of the past that shaped him to the twists and turns that will lead him to a life-altering revelation.

I am We (Documentary Film), by Ron Davis

Willow accepts her diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Her journey leads her to confront the abuse she suffered in her childhood, which is at the root of this disorder.

Consent, by Vanessa Filho

Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen years old when she meets Gabriel Matzneff, a renowned writer in his fifties. The young teenager becomes the lover and muse of this man celebrated by the cultural and political world. Losing herself in the relationship, she suffers with increasing violence the destructive hold this predator exerts over her.