The Legislative Yuan will pass the "Amendment to Some Articles of the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents" for the third time yesterday. The picture shows the Taichung City Family Defense Center's "3 Do's and 2 Do's" in response to online sexual violence cases.

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Increased criminal responsibility for sexual exploitation of children, the most serious penalty is a 10-year fine of 3 million

[Reporter Xie Junlin/Taipei Report] The Legislative Yuan will pass the "Amendment to Some Articles of the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents" for the third time yesterday. For people to watch, the maximum penalty is ten years in prison and a fine of three million yuan.

This amendment will also change the administrative penalty to a criminal penalty for those who possess child sexual images without legitimate reasons. included in the penalty.

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The Executive Yuan’s proposal pointed out that in order to avoid the “Nth Room Sexual Abuse Incident” in South Korea, and considering that there are still sexually intimate images of victims of sexual exploitation of children being disseminated in practice, it is necessary to remove their images to protect the victims , so this amendment is proposed.

In the part of raising the penalty, the article on the third reading pointed out that if a child is used to lure, intermediary, assist, etc., to make a child engage in sexual intercourse or obscene behavior for people to watch, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and may be sentenced to three hundred A fine of ten thousand yuan.

If the above-mentioned illegal acts are committed by means of violence, coercion, drugs, deceit, hypnotism, or other methods against the individual's will, the sentence shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than seven years, and a fine of not more than five million yuan may be imposed.

The article on the third reading also stipulates that those who distribute, broadcast, deliver, publicly display or use other methods for people to view or listen to minor sexual images, sexually related pictures, voices or other items that are objectively capable of arousing sexual desire or shame , shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than seven years, and may also be fined not more than five million yuan.

In addition, for possession of children's sexual images without legitimate reasons, this amendment changed the original administrative fine of 10,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan to a fixed-term imprisonment of less than one year, criminal detention or a combination of 30,000 yuan and 300,000 yuan. A fine of less than ten thousand yuan.

Those who make children engage in table drinking or pornographic escorts, accompaniment singing, accompaniment dances, or other similar behaviors shall be fined not less than 200,000 yuan but not more than 2 million yuan, and ordered to improve within a time limit.