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Commission of Inquiry Into Incest: 49 Recommendations to Fight Against “a Mass Crime” - Health Care Today

The report of the commission of inquiry into the judicial treatment of parental incest was made public on July 9, 2026. It highlights a massive societal denial of incest and reveals failures at each link in the criminal chain. The rapporteur proposes 49 recommendations to combat this “mass crime”. Nearly 11% of French people say they have been victims of incestuous situations, committing incest “one of the most widespread forms of violence again…

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"Incest is a mass crime, which cannot be treated as a different fact or a series of isolated crimes. It is a phenomenon of society that calls for a public policy (...) to 360 degrees", explains to the AFP its rapporteur, MP PS Christian Baptiste. In its report published on Thursday, the commission recalls that 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence each year. In 81% of the cases, the aggressor belongs to the family. More than 20,000 min…

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The parliamentary commission that investigated the French justice response to incest presented a report this Thursday that describes it as a "massive and systemic phenomenon" in France, and denounced the ineffectiveness of the judicial system to address a problem that causes 160,000 victims each year. Between 2016 and 2025, according to the report, the number of minors registered as victims of domestic sexual violence increased by 170 %. The stu…

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On average, 130,000 children are victims of incest in France each year, according to a report published Wednesday, July 8, by the National Assembly's cross-party inquiry commission on incestuous sexual violence. After hearing from more than one hundred people over six months, the commission noted that by 2024, there had been only 380 convictions for rape.

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A committee of inquiry of the Assembly alerts on incest in France, points to insufficient human resources and penal failures.

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A parliamentary report published this Thursday denounces the ineffectiveness of the judicial system in the face of incest. Law enforcement, experts and magistrates are pointed out for their insufficient or even inadequate response to a scourge that causes 160,000 victims each year. MPs call for a thorough reform including the imprescriptibility of crimes and the decriminalisation of the non-representation of children. - "Incest is a mass crime":…

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This commission on the judicial treatment of incestuous sexual violence notes that such violence is "maintained" by society and calls for "out of denial". Its report recommends, in particular, the creation of a "protective parent" status.

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Liberation broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
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