Regulations Governing Reporting, Classification, and Categorization of Sexual Assault Cases Article 11

The municipal and city/county competent authorities may provide appropriate protection and assistance for any of the following circumstances:1. When the suspect is a child, an adolescent, or a person with physical or mental disabilities, tailor-made resources may be recruited in order to provide adaquate assistancefor the suspect during the investigation and trial procedures.2. When the parties are in any of the relationships defined in Article 3 or 63-1 of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, the municipal and city/county competent authorities may represent the victim or help the victim to apply for a civil protection order.3. When the victim is a foreign worker, a request may be made to the authority in charge of the said worker to provide assistance in changing the employer, protection, placement, companionship, interpretation, legal aid, and other matters.4. In the event that the victim is required to undertake an interrogation/examination during the legal proceeding, prior to that procedure, the municipal and city/county competent authorities may help the victim apply for an out-of-the-court room aproval that, by means of using audio or video transmission technology and equipment or other appropriate partitioning measures, separate the victim from the defendant, judge, or military judge5. If the offender is a lineal or collateral relative of the victim and is released from the prison, an evaluation on the protective functioning of the family of the victim shall be conducted based on the age, degree of disability, and the willingness of the victim, as well as following up on the safty of the victim.