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olice in Serang, Banten, have arrested a businessman who is accused of raping his 16-year-old employee.

The suspect was arrested in a hideout in Kota Baru subdistrict in Serang, where he had spent the last three nights with his wife and children.

“We found the suspect with his wife and children hiding in a small house he had just rented for two days in Kota Baru, Serang regency, early on Friday,” Tangerang Police Detective Chief Comr. Shinto Silitonga told The Jakarta Post on Friday.

The suspect, identified as 60-year-old A.S., the owner of Bambu Kuning restaurant on Jl. Raya Kadu Agung in the capital of Tangerang regency Tiga Raksa, was arrested for rape as alleged by his employee, identified only as Amel, who said that A.S. had raped her on Monday.

A witness, Shinto, said the victim had started working at the restaurant on Sept. 3.

It was during her second day at work that A.S. raped her. The suspect warned the victim not to file a report to the police, and promised that he would compensate her.

On Sept. 12, the suspect made a second attempt to rape Amel, but was caught by other employees in the restaurant after the victim screamed for help.

The victim was later found by her fellow employees lying unconscious on the floor, having cut her own wrists in an apparent act of suicide. The suspect fled the restaurant and went into hiding for the next few days.

Shinto said that A.S. had confessed to his crime and was now in police custody.

The police said they expected to charge the suspect with Article 81 of the 2002 Child Protection Law, which carried a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Meanwhile, in Jakarta, a lawyer of three female employees of the National Land Agency (BPN) who were alleged to have been sexually abused by their superior, said further efforts had been made to victimize his clients.

One of the victims’ lawyers, Ahmad Jazuli, said that a number of BPN officials had blamed the three employees for filing a report to the police earlier this week.

“Some of these people asked why they had to go to the media and to the police instead of trying to settle the problem internally. This gives the impression that the victims should be faulted for it,” Jazuli said as quoted by kompas.com.

Jazuli said that one of the three victims had decided to take leave from the office because they could no longer handle the pressure from the agency.

He said that suspect in the case, identified only as G, who is a high-ranking officer at BPN, had not been fired, and had been spotted attending meetings at the agency.

Three female employees of BPN filed a report with the Jakarta Police on Monday, accusing their superior of sexually harassing them between 2010 and 2011.

The women, identified as A.I.F., A.N. and N.P.S., accused G., a director at BPN’s directorate general for land rights management, of sexual abuse.