Assist. Prof. Şevket AYAZ : The World Health Organization defines child abuse as "behaviors committed by an adult or the state, knowingly or unknowingly, that adversely affect the child's health, physical and psycho-social development". child abuse; It is classified into four groups as neglect, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. As a result of these actions or inactions, the child is physically, mentally, sexually or socially harmed and his health is endangered. These different forms of abuse and neglect are a very important problem that affects not only families, but also society, social institutions, legal systems, education system and business areas. All children can be exposed to abuse in every neighborhood, in every society, in every country and in every part of the world. Child abuse and neglect has been increasing in recent years. Four children a week in the UK and three a day in the USA die due to child abuse and neglect, and one out of every thousand children under the age of 4 is subjected to physical abuse.

 

Assist. Prof. Hüseyin KAZAN: The screen is not just a television screen, a mobile phone is a screen, computers are screens, everything you can see is a screen. We look at everything with a screen size. What's behind this screen? First of all, I ask you to look carefully at the photos. In the photos you see here, why did I choose them specifically? Because children watch TV just like in this picture. It's the same way he watches while watching TV or looking at the computer. And because he watches that way, naturally all his attention is on him. That's why the images of violence he watches in the painting he sees, the images of sexual abuse he watches can cause negative wounds in his mind. The child does not copy what he sees. The child copies what he sees by magnifying it. In other words, the child's mind is much more than what he sees. We need to look at it from this perspective.

Pınar CANBAZ, Advertiser, Psychologist: There are mistakes about child abuse. We think of child abuse as a rare situation in society, we talk about it like that, but the arm is broken and the yen is inside. However, one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of eighteen. We think that most children are sexually abused by strangers, but children are actually more sexually abused by those they know, know and trust. If we think that the abuser is generally elderly people with socio-economically weak personality traits and that the abuser chooses lonely places, most of the abuse cases take place at home and school or between home and school. Children are generally afraid to reveal that they have been sexually abused, but they can show it with some disorders in their behavior. So we as adults have to understand. Of course, it is very difficult for a person who has been sexually abused to confess to a relative. I will even give you an example. Nazan ÖNCEL, a singer you all know, is an artist who was sexually abused by her stepfather. Years later, he wrote a song and confessed it to his mother with the song he wrote.

 

Ozan KARADAĞ, Cyber ​​Crimes Specialist: Friends, all your social media leaves a trace. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube; All servers are abroad. Don't say "I'm going in and out, nothing will happen", we can detect them. How my dear teacher said: "Tomorrow when that child grows up, will he not be affected when he sees these pictures?" We all have mistakes we made as children, why should these come your way? Use the internet correctly. Because you are facing these threats. All of these are sent to us. After examining the reports coming from here, we take those we have identified as criminal elements to the prosecutor's office. We have stated the number of arrests by us for the four months of 2016-2017 and 2018, you see that the arrests are few, right? My friend will explain this to you, too, but I'll tell you a couple of them. Friends, we see the child, unfortunately, we invite his family to our branch, we have a private room and we do it by receiving psychological support. Here the case comes to us very late. After they come, in the family, as I just said, my husband kills my brother, in the following cases, they change the person saying that it was the child who did it, our nephew did it. We are having a problem here. Our main determination is that we cannot be emotional, we look at their digital. Do you have these videos digitally? Are there any videos about the victim girl? We look at them, we examine them, and then we judge. Our reports are precise and clear. That's why these take time and I don't think our judges and prosecutors are very knowledgeable on this subject, I exclude those who do. Unfortunately, the method of punishment in this regard is few.

 

Elçin Cemre ŞENCAN: Before moving on to the subject of child abuse, I think it is necessary to focus on the concept of child. Who is the child? A child is first and foremost a human being.