Who take advantage of their positions of trust and authority. Sexual violence is frequently perpetrated by school teachers and administrators Latin America between the ages of thirteen and fifteen have experienced sexual To the United Nation’s Children’s Agency (UNICEF), three out of ten students in Report experiencing some form of sexual violence while at school. This case being the first of its kind before the IACtHR, sexual harassmentĮxperienced by school students is not uncommon. School, and if the school failed to provide her with proper medical care. Sexual abuse, if Paola was adequately protected from sexual violence in a state Will determine whether Ecuador was responsible for failing to prevent the She thenīrought the suit to the IACtHR, an autonomous body of the Organization ofĪmerican States, which rules on whether a government violated human rights. When she first filed suit in Ecuador, the case was dismissed. Mother, Petita Albarracin, has continued the legal battle for over eighteen
She told her friends on the way to school, who then alerted school authorities,īut they told her to pray for forgiveness instead of seeking timely medical Thereafter, Paola took her own life by ingesting phosphorus. To the school doctor for an abortion, he said he would only perform the surgery The sexual abuse led to a pregnancy and when her abuser took her Photo Courtesy of the Guardian.Īges of fourteen to sixteen, she was sexually abused and raped by the schoolĪdministrator. Petita Albarracin, mother of Paola, talking about her daughter during an interview.