China News Service, Beijing, March 1 (Reporter Zhang Su) Gong Ming, deputy procurator general of China's Supreme People's Procuratorate, said at a press conference on March 1 that from 2020 to 2023, procuratorial organs prosecuted a total of 24 crimes against minors30,000 people, with an average annual increase of 54%。
In recent years, crimes against minors have been on the rise on the whole," Gong Ming said, adding that the procuratorial organs, together with the public security organs and the people's courts, have severely punished serious crimes such as violent injuries and trafficking in accordance with the law, and have severely cracked down on adults coercing, enticing, and instigating minors to engage in illegal and criminal activities. For example, he said, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court have issued judicial interpretations, which clearly stipulate that the use of the Internet to "remote" juvenile crimes will be severely punished in accordance with the law.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate released 5 guiding cases on the protection of minors online, including "Sui Moumou's case of using the Internet to extort and extort, produce, sell, and disseminate ** items for profit". The case further clarifies that after the perpetrator commits an online criminal act, and then uses the spread of privacy and coercion to force the minor victim to have sexual relations with him, it constitutes two separate criminal acts, which should be recognized as **child crime and **crime respectively.
In response to the frequent occurrence of crimes against minors, procuratorial organs have strengthened litigation supervision, and in 2023, 566 protests were filed against juvenile crimes, an increase of 21 year-on-year7%。
Gong Ming said at the meeting for example, a girl with an intellectual disability in the same village of Gansu Wang Moumou refused to admit her guilt, the procuratorate relayed supervision, the Supreme People's Procuratorate raised a protest in accordance with the law, and the defendant was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment from not guilty.
In addition, the procuratorate has carried out "every case must be investigated" in cases of violations against minors, and has done practical follow-up supervision and reverse review, handling more than 3,700 cases through mandatory reporting in 2023, urging and holding accountable 557 people for not reporting, and pursuing criminal responsibility for suspected crimes abusing public office in accordance with the law. (ENDS).