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Voices are pouring out recently that adults need to protect children and change laws and systems, but our reality is not keeping up.
Not long ago, there was a case where a 40-year-old had a daughter who had been raised without notification of birth, and it was confirmed that a brother who was less than 10 years old in Daejeon was living without a notification of birth.
Nevertheless, the police did not actively move, believing only what their parents said they would report.
Reporter Cho Hye-won of TJB reported this.
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In May of last year, a report was filed by the police in Seo-gu, Daejeon, that the two brothers were unable to go to school or receive hospital treatment.
Their parents didn't even report the birth of their 9- and 6-year-old brothers.
Still, there were no signs of abuse, and the police did not respond positively, believing only the parents said they would report the birth.
Family members who had been moving around the motel suddenly cut off contact and disappeared, and the police only arrested their parents after receiving a second report in November of last year.
[Eun-hee Choi/Director of Women and Youth Section of Daejeon Western Police Station: Since the police do not have the authority to compel birth report, we have been enacted
under
the Child Welfare Act in parallel with the recommendation to report birth.]
The answer was that nothing could help.
[Daejeon Office of Education Official: I think it should be managed as a whole.
Same with the Dong Community Center, and our (Education Office).]
According to the Family Relations Registration Act, if there is a risk that welfare is jeopardized by not registering a birth within the period, the prosecutor or the head of a local government can file a birth report, but neither agency has actively moved.
Children who exist in the world but not in the record are concealed by their guardians and are not protected from serious harm such as abuse.
(Video coverage: Kim Kyung-han, TJB)