Desiderates of exercising the function of defending the victim and the injured party in the case of investigating sexual crimes

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Data: 2025

The mechanisms for ensuring the rights of victims and injured parties in cases of sexual crimes need to be improved. In order to increase the protection of victims of sexual crimes, several measures are needed: establishing a form of legal assistance guaranteed by the state, ensuring psychological and medical counseling that ensures not only physical but also psycho-social recovery, strengthening the mechanisms for ensuring the right to privacy and protection of personal image, hearing victims in friendly conditions, establishing clear criteria for additional hearings of victims, avoiding (unnecessary) confrontations between the victim and the perpetrator during the examination of the respective crimes.