Objective:

This paper is the result of a research whose objective was to analyze psychological reactions in parents of children who have suffered extra-familial sexual abuse, ASE; this research was conducted at Centro de Atención Integral a Víctimas de Abuso Sexual - CAIVAS - Prosecutor office, in Medellin, Colombia.

Method:

A qualitative, historical hermeneutic approach was used, through a Phenomenological methodology; for data collection, ten parents taken from criminal new files, and who were received through a free and informed consent signature by psychology area, were sampled, as follows : nine mothers and one father, who attended to judicial process for criminal proceeding related to ASE event In order to analyze the information, a categorization and relational codification, which allowed us to know psychological reactions from parents whose children were victims of sexual abuse, were made.

Results:

The most relevant results are trans-generational traumas and diffuse feelings, such as caregiver parents, for whom to assume their parental functions is difficult and prevent them to be their children protectors.

Conclusion: As a conclusion, it was evident that extra-familial sexual abuse has direct implications on their parents, as well as its intervention, demands to approach the whole family system; because when a family is affected by this event, the dynamics are problematized, not only making the child protection difficult for parents, but also for helping the child develop coping skills with a threat of this type.

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