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Murder, mutilation suspect admits killing seven boys
A man suspected of killing a boy and mutilating his corpse made another confession Thursday, adding that he had killed six other boys and mutilated two of them
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man suspected of killing a boy and mutilating his corpse made another confession Thursday, adding that he had killed six other boys and mutilated two of them.
Baikuni, a resident of Cakung, East Jakarta, revealed this fact during a psychological examination conducted by University of Indonesia psychologist Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono. “All seven murders followed the same pattern,” Sarlito said.
“He strangled the boys with plastic rope after they refused to be sodomized.”
During the examination Sarlito said he had also found that Baikuni was mentally sound and eligible
for trial.
“He committed all seven murders with full awareness of his action,” he said.
Jakarta Police arrested Baikuni, 60, last week for allegedly killing a 9-year-old busker, mutilating him and dumping his body.
The mutilated body was later discovered in Cakung.
Police believe he sexually assaulted the corpse.
Sarlito also asserted that Baikuni’s motive was sexual, playing down widespread speculation saying that the pedophile mutilated his victims to cash in on body organs.
Born in Magelang, Central Java, Baikuni moved to Jakarta when he was 12 years old and earned money as a street musician. He reportedly said someone had tried to sodomize him.
After the incident, a man from Kuningan, West Java, brought him to his hometown and employed him to look after his buffaloes.
The man asked him to marry a local and after his wife died, Baikuni moved back to Jakarta.
He worked as a street vendor in Pulo Gadung bus terminal, East Jakarta, and used his rented house to accommodate street children.
It was said if Baikuni wanted to have sex, he would sodomize the street children.
In 2007, The National Commission for Child Protection estimated there were at least 80,000 street
children in Greater Jakarta.
It said these children could easily be economically or sexually exploited, partly due to the limited number of shelters for orphans and street children.
Two days after Baikuni’s arrest, North Jakarta Police arrested another man, 24, a resident of Koja, North Jakarta, for allegedly sodomizing at least 15 street children over the past six years.
The police investigation team found that the suspect, who worked as a public minibus assistant,
was sodomized when he was 15 year’s old.
Meanwhile, the Padjadjaran University psychologist Harry Suherman said it was important to provide sodomy victims with counseling to help ease their trauma and eliminate the potential they do the same thing.
