Handout picture: Suspected serial kid rapist Herry Wirawan, center, is accompanied by district attorneys at the Bandung District Court in West Java, January 11, 2022.
BY: ANTARA
JANUARY 11, 2022
Bandung. An Islamic boarding school teacher in West Java was recommended a death sentence on Tuesday for charges of raping at least 13 students and impregnating a few of them.
The defendant, Herry Wirawan, 36, is also dealing with chemical castration and Rp 500 million in fines and another Rp 331 million in damages that will be channeled to his victims, according to the prosecution demand read out throughout the closed-door hearing at the Bandung District Court.
” We initially demanded a death sentence for the offender to show our commitment that he can’t dedicate anymore crimes,” West Java District attorney’s Workplace Head Asep Mulyana told reporters at the court house.
” We also asked the judges to enforce extra sentences consisting of the promotion of his identity and chemical castration,” Asep added.
The defendant is charged under the hard Child Defense Law that brings a death sentence for serial child rapists.
Herry was completely in charge of female students entrusted at his boarding school in the West Java capital of Bandung and he misused spiritual symbols and mentors to molest underage students, the district attorney said.
Courts documents reveal that numerous of his victims have given birth to nine babies. One victim has now had two kids.
Herry neither rejected nor accepted the charges throughout court hearings that started last month.
District attorneys likewise suggested the instant closure of a structure and 2 boarding schools run by Herry and the seizure of his properties to be used as advantages for his victims and their infants.
Herry has actually raped his students given that 2016 at the boarding schools, hotel rooms, or houses, according to the indictment.
The West Java Police started to investigate the case in May of in 2015 but it wasn’t until December that the media learned about the stunning scandal as the court hearing started.
Authorities argued at that time that they didn’t give public exposure to the case to “prevent further mental and social damages on the victims.”
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