Regulations Governing Reporting, Classification, and Categorization of Sexual Assault Cases Article 10

In the case where the pre-examination visits and evaluations were conducted for the purpose of eliminating victims of sexual assault from making repeated statements (hereinafter referred to as the eliminating repeated statements procedure), social workers shall fill out a pre-examination visit form for the eliminating repeated statements procedure and to evaluate whether the victim is suitable for an interrogation/examination. This form shall be hand in to judicial policemen/investigator who then shall submit this form to a juvenile court judge, a prosecutor, or a military prosecutor who has the jurisdiction to handle the case.If the victim in the case set forth in the preceding paragraph is subject to the order of the commencement of guardianship, to the order of commencement of assistance or is under the age of 12, the approval from his/her guardian, assistant, or legal representative is required through providing their consent to undertake the eliminating repeated statements procedure. Nevertheless, this provision is not applicable if the aforesaid guardian, assistant, or legal representative is the sexual assault suspect or defendant of this case.