아동 성 행동 문제에 대한 지역사회 대응 방안

Abstract

A six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a fellow classmate at a daycare center multiple times in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province in 2020. The issue was brought to light after the victim’s mother posted petitions on the Cheong WaDae website calling for better protection and punishment of the perpetrators. Sexual violence has taken placed in daycare centers and this issue should be dealt with properly by authorities. The study conducted perception surveys on children’s sexual behavior problems in daycare center in Area C, Chungnam Province, identified teachers’ needs and perception, and suggested the effective guidelines and protection against the problems. The surveys consisted of the questions which identified the realities, perception of children’s sexual behavior problems and what the 170 directors needed in daycare centers in Chungnam Province, and a frequency analysis method was applied. The results are as follows. First, prevention program should be developed to prevent children’s sexual behavior problems. Second, local communities should prepare a task force team on children’s sexual behavior problems in advance and it would better to make the team consist of local community professionals to handle the problems appropriately. Third, the program should be instigated to educate child assaulter and assaulter’s parents on sexual violence relapse prevention. Fourth, child victim and victim’s parents should be supported with mental health recovery programs.