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View all search resultsMedan Police charge girl with domestic violence over mother's homicide
Police have charged the juvenile suspect under the domestic violence law, as the evidence collected during the investigation indicated the crime was likely spontaneous.
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he Medan Police have brought domestic violence charges against a 12-year-old girl, identified only by her initials AL, for allegedly killing her mother and declared the junior high school student as a “child in conflict with the law”.
The legal term refers to adolescents aged between 12 and 18 who are suspected of violating the law, equivalent to a juvenile suspect.
“The investigation has determined AL as a child in conflict with the law and she is charged with articles under the domestic violence law,” Medan Police chief Sr. Comr. Jean Calvijn Simanjuntak told a press conference on Monday, held at the police headquarters in the North Sumatra capital.
The girl is not being held in a detention center and has instead been placed in a safe house, where she is permitted to pray, play, communicate, continue her education and exercise her other rights under the strict supervision of experts.
Calvijn explained that AL was charged with Article 44, paragraph 4 of Law No. 23/2004 on the eradication of domestic violence as well as articles 338 and 340 of the Criminal Code (KUHP).
He said the decision to charge the juvenile suspect under the domestic violence law was based on the results of the investigation, which found that she had not readied the knife that was used in the homicide of her mother, Faizah Soraya.
Rather, investigators had determined that the knife was present and readily accessible in the house as a cooking utensil.
