Rules for questioning underage female victims

Female prosecutors are required to be present when questioning underage female criminal suspects, victims and witnesses. The following three situations require female employees to perform or be present:

The first is to check the female body.

The second is to search women's bodies.

The third is to interrogate female juvenile criminal suspects. Interrogation of a criminal suspect must be conducted by investigators of a people's procuratorate or a public security organ. During interrogation, there shall be no fewer than two investigators. After the criminal suspect is sent to the detention center for custody, the investigators shall interrogate him in the detention center. Only when questioning underage female criminal suspects, victims and witnesses are female staff members required to be present. The presence includes questioners, recorders or people who neither record nor ask questions. The female staff here should refer to the investigators. To sum up, female prosecutors should be present when interrogating female juvenile criminal suspects. If it is necessary to inspect or search female juvenile criminal suspects, they should also be inspected by female prosecutors or medical personnel and searched by female prosecutors. This is to protect the rights and interests of women, especially female minors.

When questioning minors, guardians need to be present. In the case of juvenile delinquency, the criminal suspect shall be informed during interrogation and trial, and the legal representative of the defendant shall be present. This is also due to the immature mind and fragile feelings of minors, and their reaction to the trial may be strong.

When the public security organ interrogates a juvenile criminal suspect, it is not stipulated that its legal representative must be notified to be present. If his legal representative is unable to notify, attend or commit a crime, he may notify other relatives, minor protection organizations and others to attend.

The legal representative, other relatives or minor protection organizations of a juvenile criminal suspect may entrust a lawyer to defend the parties concerned.

legal ground

Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 118 The interrogation of a criminal suspect must be conducted by investigators of a people's procuratorate or a public security organ. During interrogation, there shall be no fewer than two investigators. After the criminal suspect is sent to the detention center for custody, the investigators shall interrogate him in the detention center.