Regulations for Reporting, Differential Processing and Investigating Cases of Children and Youth Protection Article 6

Competent authorities of the municipal or county (city) government shall categorize the cases into 3 groups after differentiating the cases mentioned in preceding Article depending on the reason of report, the relationship between perpetrator and children/youth, other information reported and the characteristics of the case: 1. Group 1: children and youth have issues listed in Paragraph 1, Article 2 due to their parents, guardians, other people looking after them or other family members (thereinafter as “caregivers”) do not try their utmost to correct children and youth’s deviant behavior or intentionally cause the harm to children and youth. 2. Group 2: children and youth have issues listed in Paragraph 1, Article 2 due to people other than children and youth themselves or caregivers. 3. Group 3: issues other than those described in the two previous subparagraphs.