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The purpose of this study is to find the legal principles and issues regarding protection of children and juveniles from sexual abuse through the analysis of judicial precedents regarding sexual crimes against children and juveniles, and to present some effective improvement plans about the protection of children and juveniles from sexual abuse. Data was collected through the national laws information data collection center (http://www.law.go.kr/) in June 2013 to current judicial precedents regarding sexual crimes against children and juveniles. the first, the second, the third trials all open 9 case, a total of 27 judicial precedents were study subjects. content analysis is the main research method for this study. The research results were able to find the legal principles for power, contrary opinion no punishment, the credibility of the victim statements, litigation legal capacity and inevitability reason, the recognition that whether the victim is juveniles or not. Therefore the direction of the legal judgment needs to be more strengthened for protection of children and juveniles from sexual abuse in the future.