Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Anak sebagai Korban Tindak Pidana Pelecehan Seksual (Studi Kasus di Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak Provinsi Sumatera Utara)

Abstract

Child protection is all activities to guarantee and protect children and their rights so that they can live, grow, develop, and participate optimally in accordance with their dignity and humanity, and get protection from violence and discrimination. Therefore, there is a need for legal guarantees for child protection activities.The formulation in this study is that sexual harassment is a form of sexual act or conversation where an adult seeks sexual satisfaction from a child. And child sexual abuse can include the form or interaction between a child and an adult where the child is used for sexual stimulation by an actor or other person who is in a position to have power or control over the victim, including inappropriate physical contact, making pornography or showing adult genitalia to children. The study in this paper is legal research, so the approach used is a normative juridical approach that is descriptive analytic. The data used comes from the applicable laws and regulations, both Islamic law and positive law are analyzed qualitatively and then interpreted by the deductive method. And the results of this study indicate that the legal protection carried out by the Office of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection is a form of treatment for children who are victims of sexual abuse, starting from the time of reporting to the inspection process. In addition, the Office of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection seeks to provide rehabilitation to children as victims of sexual harassment by collaborating with the Police. The obstacles faced were lack of witnesses and evidence that made it difficult to carry out further examinations, then from the victim's side did not want to be processed due to trauma, shame if processed in the court would spread to many people according to them was a disgrace that must be covered , then fear because the victim received threats and terror from the perpetrators, making the victim not want to report the incident of sexual abuse.