LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST CHILD PERPETRATORS AND VICTIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Study of Medan District Court Decision No. 2068/Pid.Sus/2020/PN.Mdn)

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 human dignity, and receive protection from violence and discrimination. Therefore, there needs to be legal guarantees for child protection activities. The results of the study show that the factors causing the occurrence of sexual harassment crimes against children are lack of parental supervision of children, environmental factors, law enforcement factors, technological factors, vulnerability factors and of these factors, the most common are environmental factors and technological factors. Legal protection for children as victims of sexual harassment crimes is carried out in the form of protection in the investigation process in the form of investigations carried out by female police, keeping their identities secret from the community and providing assistance, monitoring and advocacy, namely finding alternatives for children to get institutions that can be used as permanent residences for children, making restitution so that the rights of children who are victims can be fully realized and realized.