Human Trafficking Prevention Act Article 22

Any human trafficking victim’s legal agent, spouse, lineal relative by blood or collateral relative by blood within 3rd degree of kinship, parent, family member, doctor, psychiatrist, counselor, or social worker, or other person the victim trusts, with the consent of the victim, may accompany him/her and may make statements when he/she is questioned or cross-examined during an investigation or trial. The same rule apply to the procedure when the victim is under investigation by the judicial police.The provisions in the preceding paragraph regarding the person accompanying the victim are not applicable to a human trafficking suspect or defendant, or in the opinion of a public prosecutor, a public prosecutor investigator, a judicial police officer, or a judicial policeman, the presence of the person specified will pose hindrance to the prosecutorial investigation.