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he Jakarta Police have taken into custody a teenager who reportedly abducted an underage girl and kept her captive for a month. The police said he lured the victim through social media, posing as a South Korean who could teach the girl K-pop dance moves.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said on Tuesday that the boy, identified only as DK, 18, introduced himself as a South Korean named Junghae through social dating site waplog.com to the victim, a 16-year-old girl.

The two communicated constantly through Facebook.

'€œDK claimed he was the son of the Samsung company owner and would make [the girl] a Korean artist by teaching her Korean pop dance moves,'€ he told reporters.

Taken in by the perpetrator'€™s glibness, the girl agreed to meet DK, who took her to his house in Kampung Sawah in Bekasi, West Java on Feb. 1.

The suspect reportedly locked the girl up in his house until Feb. 8, when he apparently moved her to his stepmother'€™s house in Cileungsi, Bogor, West Java, until Feb. 27.

At one time during her ordeal, DK reportedly withheld food from the girl and threatened to do it again if she did not do as he said, Rikwanto said.

Jakarta Police cyber crime head Adj. Sr. Comr. Hilarius Duha said the perpetrator, who did not finish elementary school, also took her to a priest and asked the priest to marry them.

'€œHe asked a priest to wed them, but the priest refused as the girl was underage,'€ he said.

Hilarius said that DK had forced the girl to have sex with him three times during her captivity at his stepmother'€™s house.

DK said he was in love with the girl and claimed she did not want to return to her parents'€™ house because they put too many restriction on her.

Hilarius said the police started the investigation after the victim'€™s mother reported the case to the police on Feb. 26. The police traced the victim'€™s cellular phone to Asabri Indah residential complex in Jatiasih, Bekasi.

He said the address that the phone had been traced to was that of one of DK'€™s friends, identified only as TN, who was using the phone. The police then asked TN to show them where DK lived.

The police arrested DK at his stepmother'€™s house on March 3 at 10 p.m. and took him to the Jakarta Police special crimes unit.

Hilarius said DK could be charged under articles 330 and/or 332 of the Criminal Code on restricting personal freedom, which carried a maximum sentence of nine years in prison. (ask)