If the perpetrator commits the crime of forced indecency, the court shall sentence him to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention.
If the offender gathers a crowd to fight or commits the crime of forced indecency in a public place, the court will also impose a prison sentence of more than 5 years.
The crime of forced indecency refers to the act of forcing another person to do indecency by violence, coercion or other means.
Legal Basis
Article 237 of the Criminal Law
Whoever uses violence, coercion or other methods to forcibly molest others or insult women shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention .
Whoever gathers a crowd to fight in a public place or commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, or has other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.
Those who molest children shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years; those who fall under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years:
(1) Those who molest children multiple times;
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(2) Gathering a crowd to molest children, or molesting children in public in public places, the circumstances are egregious;
(3) Causing harm to children or other serious consequences;
(4) The means are obscene or have other bad circumstances.
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