Police say mutilation suspect may suffer sexual disorder

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 10/08/2008 6:18 PM  |  Jakarta

An autopsy of body parts found last week on a bus in Cakung, East Jakarta, indicated the perpetrator of the mutilation may have had a sexual disorder, a doctor says.

"Based on the appearance of the incisions, there is a likelihood (the perpetrator had a sexual disorder)," Doctor Mu'in Idris who carried out the autopsy said in response to queries from reporters at Metro Police General Crimes Unit on Wednesday.

Examinations of the 13 body parts found revealed that the anus of the victim was missing, Mu'in said.

There are two common motives for body mutilation, Mu'in said. The first was to remove traces of a crime by cutting the body into smaller parts to make it easier to transport and dump -- especially common in a city like Jakarta where it was not easy to find a place to bury a body, he said.

The second motive involved something more psychological in nature, Mu'in said. Crimes of passion involving partners with deviated sexual orientations, he said, had a high tendency for mutilations. "This is called 'gross mutilation'."

Elaborating more on the results of the autopsy, Mu'in said the body had been identified as an adult male who was around 170 centimeters tall, circumcised, and who had a shoe size of more than 40. Mu'in said the exact age of the victim would be verified with a DNA test.

The DNA test would also reveal the identity of the victim. So far, two families have claimed a missing family member with a body resembling the victim -- with a tattoo of a tiger on the right arm.

Previously, police distributed a drawing of a tiger tattoo that was found on the right hand of the mutilated victim.

"All we can do now is examine the blood type of the victim and prepare a DNA sample. We can only find out the identity once we match the DNA with what the families have provided.

"The identification process is going to be hard because of the very limited amount of evidence," Mu'in said, adding that the victim's skull had not been found.

According to media reports, nine mutilation cases have occurred in Indonesia since early January this year, including the Cakung bus case. This number is a significant increase from the three
reported in 2007.

The most famous mutilation case this year involved Verry "Ryan" Idham Henyansyah who was allegedly responsible for the murder of 11 people that he had buried in his backyard in Jombang, East Java. (ast)

 

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