9) Recommendation to Improve Policies to Protect the Rights of Child Victims of
Sexual Violence
The Commission viewed that in order to fundamentally address the problem of sexual
violence against children, it is necessary to take proactive measures to protect and support
child victims of sexual violence. As such, the Commission recommended the improvement
of policies on sexual violence against children on June 24, 2010 to the Minister for Gender
Equality and Family; the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency; the
Prosecutor General; the Minister for Education, Science and Technology; and the Minister
for Justice.
The Commission recommended the protection of the privacy of child victims of sexual
violence as follows: to seek measures to ensure simultaneous attendance by prosecutors,
police and experts at initial testimony by the child to minimize repetitions of the child's
testimony; to seek measures to reinforce expertise of investigation; to improve relevant
regulations to allow replacement of recorded statement with video statements; to stipulate
in laws that the police shall also make a request for securing of evidence to the competent
prosecutor to invigorate special regulations on securing of evidence; to formulate measures
to prevent misuse of regulations that require accompanying of persons with a guardian
relationship with the child when questioning the child victim; to provide an additional
waiting room at the time of questioning witnesses; to ensure the judge's robe, seat
arrangement, and court opening time are arranged in a child-friendly manner; to seek ways
to provide education on skills to give court testimony to the child victim and come up with
ways to actively utilize interrogations via video relay devices; to seek measures to prevent
secondary victimization in cross-examination; to come up with measures to prevent the
leakage of personal information of the victim in the investigation and trial process and
when viewing and photocopying lawsuit records of the defendant; and to introduce a
system for trial notification.
The Commission also recommended the improvement of relevant policies as follows:
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