21 Severe treatments took away their life or forced them to escape only to drown and be buried in secret. About 300 bodies of children are reportedly deserted in a nearby graveyard. 97. The group of victims, the Countermeasure Committee on State Violence against Seongam Academy Children, has identified about 70 victims, and the NHRCK has surveyed 28 of them in February 2018: most of them are now in their 50s to 60s had been kidnapped by the police or government officials and spent more than three years in the camp. About 50% of them had lived on begging or roamed for at least five years after discharged from academy, while 80% barely finished ‘primary education. Even now most of them are suffering from illness, trauma, and poverty. 2) Questions 98. What kind of specific measures has the government been taking to find truth about state violence against children such as in the case of Seongam Academy and survey the status of its victims? 3. Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse Issue 29. Sexual Assault on Children 1) Current status 99. The Criminal Act defines sexual assault, etc. to the under the age of 13 as a statutory rape. Those who engage in consensual sex with youth over 13 are legally not punishable. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the rate of sexual crime against teenagers over 13, the age of consent, has reached about 80% in 2016. Legislative bills in a bid to raise the age of consent and to punish those who commit a sexual crime against child between 13 and 16 or over 13 have been submitted to the 20th National Assembly. 100. Child grooming is frequently reported where an emotionally and financially vulnerable victim is approached and offered with relief of her/his urgent needs and finally befriended to form a trustful relationship and tame her/him mentally with the objective of sexual abuse. There is a case where a perpetrator who sexually assaulted on many occasions and impregnated a teenage girl has been acquitted by the court. He met the then-15-year-old girl for the first time in 2011 and engaged in sexual intercourse on many occasions. The court of first instance and the appeal court sentenced 12 years and nine years in prison respectively, while the Supreme Court vindicated him in 2017 as the victim had continued to see him after the assaults and sent a love letter to him in prison.