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11 ｜ Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Protective Services

Section 3 Intervention for Sexual Assault Reporting Center. This center provides complaint
handling, immediate removal and deletion of sexual
Offenders
images, consultation hotline services, and referral
1. Active coordination for the establishment of venues services for victims as needed.
for compulsory treatment of sexual assault offenders
after completing sentences by Article 37 Sexual Section 1 Overview of Services for the
Assault Crime Prevention Act: As of the end of Prevention of Child and Youth
2023, there were five venues accepting 9 offenders. Sexual Exploitation
2. In terms of community intervention provided for sexual 1. In 2023, the competent authorities in counties
assault offenders, in 2023 a total of 7,788 offenders and cities received a total of 3,354 reports of child
underwent treatment and counseling, including 45 and youth sexual exploitation. The most common
who were deemed not to need treatment, 1,789 who type was "filming or producing materials depicting
completed the intervention and 4,891 who were still children or youths engaged in sexual or obscene
undergoing intervention. There were 16 offenders acts" (2,914 cases, 86.88%). The numbers and
referred for compulsory treatment, 561 whose proportions of various types of reported cases are
intervention was suspended for specific reasons, and shown in Figure 11-4.
486 for whom intervention was not carried out. Of the
community treatment cases for which intervention 2. In the cases reported in 2023, placement
was not carried out for a reason, counties / cities and protection services were provided to 106
governments imposed administrative fines on 855 individuals, and over 30,000 instances of support
people and 580 referred for compulsory treatment. services were rendered, including care visiting,
counseling, educational assistance, financial aid,
Chapter 4 Prevention of Children and family intervention, employment assistance, and
Youths Sexual Exploitation healthcare resources for new and ongoing cases.
and Handling of Sexual Section 2 Status of Handling Sexual
Images Involving Children Images
and Youths 1. Removal of sexual images:
To prevent of children and youths sexual (1) In cooperation with the National Communications
exploitation, and address the diverse and complex Commission's establishment of the Institute
forms of online sexual exploitation and sexual images, of Watch Internet Network (iWIN) to address
the Ministry established a Sexual Image Abuse harmful online content impacting children and

Proportion of Various Types of Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Cases
Figure 11-4
Handled by County and City Competent Authorities in 2023

86.88 % 2,914 cases 6.41 % 215 cases
filming or producing causing children or
materials depicting youths to engage in
children or youths sexual acts or obscene
engaging in sexual acts conduct in exchange for
or obscene conduct compensation
1.94% 65 cases 4.77% 160 cases
using children or causing children or youths
youths to engage in to work as hostesses, or
sexual acts or perform in sexually-orient-
obscene conduct for ed escorting, singing,
viewing dancing, etc.
Source: Ministry of Health and Welfare

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