04/02/2021 19:08
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/02/2021 19:08
"
You do not have to keep the secrets that do wrong
."
The phrase is repeated in the song "Hay Secretos", which the Santa Fe group
"Canticuénticos"
published two years ago.
It was with the courage that those stanzas gave her that a 7-year-old girl from Neuquén
was encouraged to tell that she had suffered sexual abuse
by a neighbor, who has now
been sentenced
.
The revelation occurred when one of the teenager's sisters, in a family conversation, said that at school the music teacher had taught her the subject, which specifically refers to sexual abuse of boys and girls.
“
There are little secrets that lead you to fly.
And there are secrets so heavy,
that they do not let you breathe
.
You do not have to keep the secrets
that do wrong,
"the soft voice of its author, Ruth Hillar, is heard.
The song's author says she found the story "shocking."
The events occurred between 2018 and 2019 and the case went to trial in 2021. After the girl's complaint, two other girls from the neighborhood revealed that the man
had also tried to abuse them
when they were 7 and 8 years old and gave their testimony to the cause.
The man was convicted last week and
the song played during the hearing
.
The author of the musical theme told some of the feelings that the news left her and the importance of her work: "
It was shocking to read the whole story
and the reference to the song by the judge. It is to recognize the value of art as a
possible transformer of his time
, "Hillar said.
"That the judge made the song listen to the audience
seemed incredible to me
. I am convinced that a song that moves is a powerful song that can illuminate dark places, disarm everyday structures and
propose fairer worlds
," added the artist in an interview with the Río Negro newspaper.
The woman said that she had already recorded the song in Portuguese due to the request of a Brazilian anthropologist who asked her to disseminate the subject
in schools in Brazil
.
He also reported that he knows of many schools in
Argentina and Uruguay
that also use it in the framework of Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI).
In this sense, Hillar recalled when a mother hugged her once after a concert: "She told me that she
would have needed to hear a song like that
when she was a child, but that she was deeply grateful that her daughter could grow up
protected by this issue
."
The song is part of the album “¿Por qué, por qué?”, The fourth by Canticuénticos, presented in 2018. The following year, after the dissemination of the video clip made by Bichofeo Animación, the song
began to go viral
in its audiovisual format.
While in the resolution of the ruling that ended with the conviction of the abusive neighbor, the judge of Guarantees of Zapala, Carolina González, described the cost that it meant, especially for the adolescent, "to
remove the mask from the" good neighbor "
, when" facing to an adult who lives a few meters from his house, to be exposed to all the judicial operators and his relatives ".
The abuser has already been declared responsible for "
continued simple sexual abuse
" (by the now adolescent) and for "
continued simple sexual abuse in a degree of attempt
" (to the detriment of the other two girls), and the sentence will be determined on Monday.
The lyrics
There are little secrets
That they invite you to play
And there are such huge secrets
That come to scare you
There are light secrets
That lead you to fly
And there are secrets so heavy
That do not let breathe
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
If the words are not enough
For what you have to count
Let's invent another language
I will always listen to you
Here I am
I want to help you, I know you tell the truth
No longer have to be afraid
Because I'm going to take care of you
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
They do not have to be saved
The secrets that do wrong
No longer have to be afraid
Because I'm going to take care of you.