Background

Child sexual abuse (CSA) by authority figures in a religious community (AFRCs) has been studied extensively among the Catholic clergy, and to a limited extent among Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States and Australia. However, less attention has been devoted to the phenomenon within the Israeli context.

Objective

This article examines the perceptions of survivors within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel of their relationships with authority figures in the community who sexually abused them.

Methods

21 in-depth interviews were conducted with men who were abused by authority figures within ultra-Orthodox institutions, which were analyzed based on a thematic approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006).

Results

The results indicated that in childhood, almost none of the participants recognized that they were sexually abused. Their relationships with the authority figures were instead perceived as one of four variations: (1) normative-educative; (2) mutual; (3) an episode in a hypersexual routine; or (4) abusive punitive. Perceptions later shifted, mostly in adulthood, towards a recognition of the sexual abuse and its personal consequences.

Conclusions

The findings stress the importance of contextual factors (such as perceptions of sexuality, community structures, and cultural norms) in how ultra-Orthodox children experience abuse by authority figures in the community and its aftermath, with implications for successful prevention and intervention efforts.

中文翻译：

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“也许发生的事情实际上没问题？” 以色列极端正统社区权威人物对儿童的性虐待：幸存者对其与施暴者关系的看法

背景

宗教社区 (AFRCs) 权威人物对儿童的性虐待 (CSA) 在天主教神职人员中进行了广泛研究，在美国和澳大利亚的东正教犹太社区中进行了有限的研究。然而，在以色列背景下对这一现象的关注较少。

客观的

本文考察了以色列极端正统犹太社区的幸存者对他们与社区中对他们进行性虐待的权威人物关系的看法。

方法

对在极端正统机构内被权威人物虐待的男性进行了 21 次深度访谈，并根据主题方法进行了分析（布劳恩和克拉克，2006 年）。

结果

结果表明，在儿童时期，几乎没有参与者意识到自己受到过性虐待。相反，他们与权威人物的关系被视为四种变化之一：（1）规范教育；(2) 相互的；(3) 性欲过度的发作；(4) 辱骂性的惩罚性的。观念后来转变，主要是在成年期，转向承认性虐待及其个人后果。

结论

研究结果强调了背景因素（例如对性行为、社区结构和文化规范的看法）在极端正统儿童如何遭受社区权威人物虐待及其后果方面的重要性，这对成功的预防和干预工作具有影响。