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female physician from Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) who examined a six-year-old student from Jakarta International School (JIS) testified before the South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday that she had not found any sign of sexual assault, such as wounds to the victim'€™s rectum.

Lawyer Patra M. Zen who accompanied two of the five cleaners facing sexual assault charges at the court said after the closed-door court hearing on Wednesday that forensic pathologist Oktavinda Safitry said in her testimony to the court that she had conducted a medical examination on the victim at the hospital on March 25.

'€œShe testified that she did not find any bruises to the victim'€™s anus. She did confirm the bruise found on his stomach was caused by a blow from a blunt object,'€ he said.

He added that the pathology specialist had taken photographic evidence during the examination but she did not bring it with her to the court hearing.

The five defendants, named as Afrischa Setyani, Virgiawan Amin, Zainal Abidin, Syahrial and Agun Iskandar, all JIS cleaners employed by PT Integrated Service Solutions (ISS), allegedly sexually assaulted the victim in a rest room on the campus twice, once each in January and February.

Oktavinda herself declined to comment on her testimony after the court session.

According to Patra, Oktavinda explained to the court that rectum bruises would take at least one week to heal completely, while a tear would take much longer to heal.

Patra said that this contradicted the recorded testimony of the victim'€™s mother in the dossier, in which she said that her son had been sexually assaulted by the five cleaners at least 13 times at the JIS campus between December last year and March this year. He said that she claimed her son was last abused on March 17.

Patra said that based on such a report, the wounds from such sexual abuse by so many men would not have healed by March 22 when she brought her son to the first doctor, Narain Punjabi, at SOS Medika Clinic in Cipete, South Jakarta.

'€œOktavinda said that she only examined the outside of the victim'€™s anus and recommended that the victim return in two days for an anoscopy. However, she never came back and instead had the anoscopy done at Pondok Indah hospital [South Jakarta],'€ he said.

He said that testimony from the doctor who conducted the anoscopy at Pondok Indah hospital had not been included in the dossiers, while the medical examination result was included.

Separately, the victim'€™s mother told The Jakarta Post that she had not returned to RSCM with her son because Pondok Indah hospital was much closer to her home.

'€œThe first time I went to RSCM, the doctor tried to conduct an anoscopy on my son but he refused to let the doctor examine any deeper than the surface,'€ she said over the phone.

Meanwhile, Jakarta Police chief detective of general crimes Sr. Comr. Heru Pranoto said that the dossier for two JIS teachers would be submitted to the prosecutor'€™s office for a third time by next week, after fixing several technicalities.