PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK SEBAGAI KORBAN PENGANIAYAAN DAN KEKERASAN: (Studi Kasus Putusan Nomor : 180/Pid.B/2022/PN Sgl)

The objective of this study is to examine the legal protection of children asvictims of persecution and violence and to study the consideration of a judge indelivering a judgment against an accused in an attempt to provide legalprotection to a child as a victim of persecutions and violence in decision no.180/Pid.B/2022/PN Sgl. The type of research uses normative jurisprudence withdescriptive research properties. Data sources use a secondary data sourceconsisting of primary legal material, secondary legal materials, tertiary lawmaterials. Data collection techniques use library studies. Data analysistechniques use qualitative descriptive analysis. The results of the study show thatthe legal protection provided by the judge against a child as a victim ofpersecution and violence is to punish the accused with a criminal sentence ofimprisonment for 2 (two) years and 6 (six) months. The judge's consideration indelivering a judgment against the defendant in an attempt to provide legalprotection to the child as the victims of persecutions and violence based on thetestimony of the witnesses, the material of the evidence and the indictment of thedefendant plus the conviction of the judges. The judge also considered the facts inthe trial, so that the judge had considered either juridic or non-juridicconsiderations that could alleviate or impose a criminal sanction for the accused,so the defendant.Keywords: protection of the law, persecution, violence, children