The Jakarta Globe, July 17, 2013.
An Aceh man accused of raping and killing a 6-year-old girl faces 20 years in prison, a prosecutor demanded on Wednesday.
According to police, Amiruddin took a 6-year-old girl for a walk with her 17-year-old uncle on March 22. It was the last time the girl’s family saw her alive.
The two men reportedly raped the young girl and then fatally strangled her before disposing of her body in a bush in Peulanggahan village, Banda Aceh. The men confessed the crime to police after their arrest.
The girl’s uncle faces nine and a half years in prison. Amiruddin faces a harsher sentence because he reportedly raped and murdered someone in the past. He previously served seven years in jail for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in North Aceh in 2004.
“We believe the defendant Amiruddin has been proven guilty of raping a 6-year-old girl in Peulanggahan village,” prosecutor Syarifah told the Jakarta Globe after the trial Wednesday.
The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) declared 2013 “as a year of national emergency over child sexual abuse” in the wake of several high-profile rape and sex trafficking cases. Child abuse, and sex crimes against children, are on the rise in Indonesia, Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairman of Komnas PA, said.
In 2010, the organization received 2,046 reports of violence against children, 42 percent of which were sexual in nature. By 2012, the figure ballooned to 2,637 cases, 62 percent of them sex crimes.
As of February of this year, Komnas PA had received more than 80 reports of sexual abuse against children.
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wo 17 jul 2013 - 21:01