"You're worse than a dog." These scathing words as with a belt will forever tattooed on his mind. Blues to soul worse than those bruises which his body is covered. Invisible but extremely painful. It all started with the purchase of a piano. Fascinating instrument for a girl of two and half years. Torture device when you need it soon devote up to 45 hours per week. For Céline Raphael "bad luck" to have a gift for music. And his father to see her as a future prodigy, to require for this purpose it reaches perfection. Whatever the cost. Whatever coups..portés them on his belt reinforced body, savate, fists. Humiliation, sleep deprivation, food at the slightest false note in the performance of a piece, partition abuse is written. No shouting, no tears, no prayers. The terror that his father inspired him to sweep any hint of rebellion. "I gradually discovered the fear of later and became aware at this moment there that at any moment I could die. To die of anguish, die in pain, dying under the blows." The girl takes refuge in a submissive silence. Lest any word unpinned grenade that is the living father, fear of not being believed if she speaks, fear of disappointing his executioner. So it seems an ultimate weapon able to alert her father to make him aware of the harm it inflicts: anorexia. But that's not counting the fierce denial that animates man.
Around it is the omerta. No one outside suspects or will see that the child prodigy is a victim of such violence that each piano competition was won to the inhuman suffering price. Especially in an environment as bourgeois than where it grows. It will take benevolence and great delicacy of a school nurse at school for the veil is gradually rising over the truth, that the girl breaks the silence. End of ordeal so far? No. Court procedures, hospitalization, various investments, it is necessary to the girl determination and incredible bravery again and again. The journey of a resilient.
In this narrative is a warning bell that draws Céline Raphael. Abuse on children is not the fact disadvantaged backgrounds only. It occurs everywhere. So to prevent two children die in France every day as a direct result of abuse, to break the silence on this taboo, she cries, she wrote. "Now you'll know better hear the little voice calling for help, the little music of the hidden suffering."
For blindness and deafness feints constantly in control of acts of abuse. For that violence blows is not added that the passivity of the entourage. Karine Fléjo for the blog "The Chronicles of Koryfée"
