GENITAL, PARAGENITAL AND EXTRAGENITAL INJURIES IN FEMALE SEXUAL VIOLENCE CRIMES IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593892323101

• Palavras-chave: sexual assaults, sexual violence, sexual crimes.

• Keywords: sexual assaults, sexual violence, sexual crimes.

• Abstract:

  Introduction: The Comprehensive Organic Penal Code of Ecuador (COIP) defines sexual violence as “the person who, as a manifestation of violence against women, interposes another person and forces them to have sexual relations and other similar practices”; A fatal outcome in a case of violence is death, which, due to resistance to the attack, the victims die from strangulation, trauma or bleeding wounds. Objective: Differentiate genital, paragenital and extragenital injuries in crimes of female sexual violence through a systematic review of the literature that contributes to the resolution of legal medical processes. Methodology: This is a study carried out in a retrospective descriptive manner through a bibliographic review in the scientific bases of SCIELO, EBSCO, PUBMED, MESH, to extract qualitative information by collecting information on genital injuries in cases of sexual violence. Results: In the exhaustive search for evidence-based medicine articles in different digital repositories, around 3584 articles were found, of which 27 articles were collected that constitute extragenital, genital and extragenital injuries in sexual violence; 3 books about medical legal foundations. Conclusion: According to the reviewed literature, the role of the doctor is reaffirmed when receiving a patient who is a victim of sexual rape; The professional who captures the patient must perform a physical examination which determines if there are genital injuries in the victim. This procedure is mandatory for medical officials to lead to an investigation.