The minimum legal mechanism to prevent child abuse is a civil law amendment banning corporal punishment of children. Article 915 of the Civil Code allows a parental authority to take necessary disciplinary action to protect and educate children, which is eliminated. This article has not been amended since the enactment of the Civil Act in 1958. Some argue that disciplinary rights should be removed and replaced with disciplinary rights, but related civic groups only insist on removing disciplinary rights because child abusers confuse disciplinary action and abuse or abuse the disciplinary right.
In June of last year, right after the opening of the 21st National Assembly, lawmakers proposed a law related to the disciplinary right of parental authority. However, the legislative bill was properly discussed in the National Assembly on November 26 last year, after Jung In-yi died (October 13 last year). On SBS’I want to know that’, Jung In (name before adoption), who was adopted on the 2nd, broadcasted the situation where she was abused and died for a long time by her adoptive parents. However, last year, the National Assembly was not actively engaged in discussions.
On July 27, last year, at the general meeting of the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee (Judiciary Committee), a senior expert member of the National Assembly introduced the amendment to the civil law. “The removal of disciplinary rights for children has a symbolic meaning for expanding children’s rights, and it is a meaningful legislative measure that can be harmonized with the current Child Welfare Act, which prohibits corporal punishment for children,” said Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae. “We will review the deletion of the disciplinary rights regulations and promptly promote the revision of related laws to strengthen the access rights of judicial police officers and public officials in charge of child abuse.”
Since then, the judiciary committee did not proceed properly with related discussions.
On November 26, last year, the Judiciary Committee held the first subcommittee for bill review and discussed the revision of the civil law. Until this day, seven amendments related to disciplinary rights for children have been posted. Six were from lawmakers and one was from the government (Ministry of Justice).
Looking at the details of the amendment, the methods of removing the disciplinary right are Shin Hyun-yeong (Democratic Party), Yang Yi Won-young (Democratic Party), and government drafts. The lawmakers Jeon Yong-gi (Democratic Party) and Hwang Bo Seung-hee (the power of the people) removed the right to disciplinary action under the Civil Law, but created a new right to discipline. As in the present case, the legislative method of keeping the disciplinary right as it is, but with a limit, was the bill of lawmakers Jin Seong-jun (Democratic Party) and Park Ju-min (Democratic Party).
On this day, Jin Seon-hee, an expert member of the judiciary committee, also introduced overseas cases. According to Jin, there are a total of 60 countries (35 European countries) that have laws prohibiting all corporal punishment against children, and in the United States, all states allow reasonable corporal punishment for parents and prohibit intentionally serious injury. there was.
Rep. Park Ju-min, who proposed the amendment, said, “The purpose of the bill is that the violent methods should be eliminated in the disciplinary process.” Hearing the review report, the Vice Minister of Justice, and the Deputy Chief of the Court Administration, there is already a prohibition against such acts under the Child Welfare Act. Therefore, I thought that there would be no big problems even if I followed the government draft,” he supported the government draft that insisted on removing the right to discipline.
In-gyeom Kim, deputy head of the Court Administration Department, said, “It is not impossible to hit a single smack for the disappearance of the disciplinary rights provisions, and socially acceptable legitimate acts or acts without illegality may be possible.” “The duty of protection and supervision is so natural, so if the disciplinary right disappears, parents take responsibility It is strange that the basis for quality is weak.”
Regarding the right to discipline, Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Nam-guk agreed with the opposition to the court administration’s giving of disciplinary rights, saying, “I think that disciplinary action includes disciplinary action or not,” and “it is contradictory to leave the right to discipline while removing the right to discipline.” did.
At this meeting, after discussions of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Court Administration, and the judiciary, the right to discipline children was removed and opinions were gathered on a government proposal that did not create disciplinary rights. Baek Hye-ryeon, subcommittee chairman of the judiciary committee, said, “I think it will be done in the form of an integrated adjustment into the government plan,” he said.
Although the ruling party’s discussion was a bit late, members of the People’s Power of the Judiciary Committee did not attend the meeting. On November 25, last year, the day before, prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol’s duties were suspended, and members of the People’s Forces refused to attend the meeting by violently confronting the ruling party, demanding the attendance of President Yoon’s judiciary committee. On the next day, November 27, the Power of the People’s Justice Commissioners asked for an apology to Judicial Commissioner Yoon Ho-jung for some comments, and a public hearing was held at the general meeting on the introduction of the general punishment compensation system. Due to the Chu-Yoon conflict, the Judiciary Committee turned away from social issues, including laws related to child abuse.
On the 2nd, when the’I’m Sorry Jung’ challenge attracted attention on the 2nd, at the National Strength Emergency Countermeasures Committee on the 4th, Kim Jong-in, chairman of the hypertrophy chairman,’I’m sorry Jung In-ah’, heard a hand sign of’I’m sorry Jung In-ah’. I made this related remark. Rep. Kim Byung-wook of the same party announced that it would initiate the motion during the week after receiving the co-sponsor of the’Four Child Abuse Act’, and on the 5th, Rep.
The ruling party and other opposition parties have also hastily issued comments and additional bills related to the prevention of child abuse from the 4th.
On the 5th, the Kyunghyang Shinmun shouted’I’m sorry Jung In-ah’ in Manpyeong and pointed out the situation in which more than 90 bills to prevent and prevent child abuse are pending in the National Assembly behind the lawmakers saying the bill to strengthen the punishment of persons responsible for child abuse.
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