“Então minha luta é conspiração? Então não existe estupro de crianças?”

uma análise dos atravessamentos de raça e gênero na postura do Ministério dos Direitos Humanos, na midiatização do caso da criança de São Mateus

Abstract

This article focuses on the mediatization of the case of the ten-year-old girl from São Mateus-ES, who was raped and made pregnant by her uncle in August 2020. Our aim is to understand how race and gender dimensions were presented in the stance of the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights (MMFDH) during the event. Using a methodological approach inspired in evidentiary paradigm (Braga, 2008), in our analyses we were able to identify how the agents of the Ministry prescribed a vision of surveillance of bodies, fixing the girl in a place of subalternity and mobilizing a set of discourses and actions that establish a racist and sexist vision (Gonzalez, 1988) about the body of the child of São Mateus. We conclude that the state, through the practices of the MMFDH, collaborated to perpetuate cultures of domination, encouraging cisheteropatriarchal capitalist racism (hooks, 2019), by showing concern only for the fetus and disclaiming responsibility for the living girl who was there, with her body, having her existence, once again, dehumanized and vilified.