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The Central Jakarta Police have confirmed that the family of an allegedly raped child had to pay for a forensic examination themselves because the 3-year-old victim was not a participant of the Healthcare and Social Security Agency'€™s (BPJS Kesehatan) national health scheme.

The police'€™s women'€™s and children'€™s protection (PPA) unit chief, First Insp. Martiana, said, however, that the police had reimbursed the Rp 867,000 (US$60.60) cost on Wednesday.

The parents of the young girl from Central Jakarta had to pawn a motorcycle belonging to the child'€™s aunt to cover the cost of a forensic examination at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM).

They alleged their neighbor, S, 57, had raped their daughter, who complained of pain in her genitalia. The parents immediately took their child to hospital on Friday.

Your comments

This is a truly pathetic handling of a serious criminal case by the police. Any crimes against children should be a top priority for the police, and not a source of income.

If anybody deserves to die by firing squad, then child-abusers/pedophiles should be first in line in my opinion.

Big Mac

The police in essence are calling the mother a liar. In all likelihood, she will change her story after the police have a chat with her and her family.

No, they didn'€™t ask for money she will state while shaking like a leaf.

Xsimaging

Sensitivity training is important.  A broom stick up the clacker would do wonders to cops taking a firm position on such a subject.  They would never ignore a victim again.

Chiko Zu

We know they had to pay for medical exams, but the fact that a police woman demanded money to file a report is appalling. But in typical police fashion, it is denied to have ever happened!

It is unlikely that these parents made the story up, and it'€™s more than likely a fact, which actually happens quite a bit.

It is really sad that no one can trust the police in this country. The only thing that the police are good at is covering their own crimes and protecting their own.

Willo

From the Rp 30 million donation collected for Engeline'€™s biological mother, Hamidah (Engeline'€™s case in Bali), only Rp 300,000 was handed to her.

The rest of it reportedly vanished in a fire that razed the National Commission on Child Protection office building in East Jakarta.

A woman claiming to represent the commission and a number of policemen came to see Hamidah and told her to just '€œaccept'€ the amount of the donation that was left and not to question where the rest of it had gone.

Chotto Matte