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Teenager sentenced to 10 years for role in gangrape, sadistic murder of girlfriend
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Police officers escort defendant RA, 16, into the Tangerang District Court room on Thursday. The court sentenced RA to 10 years in prison for his role in the gang rape and premeditated murder of a 19-year-old woman last month. (Warta Kota/Nur Ichsan)
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he Tangerang District Court has sentenced a 16-year-old to 10 years in prison for his role in the gang rape and sadistic murder of a 19-year-old woman at a dormitory of a company in Kosambi, Tangerang, last month.
The sentence was the maximum penalty that could be given to an underaged convict.
“Indonesian law doesn’t recognize the death penalty for children,” said presiding judge Suharni.
Suharni said RA was proven guilty of premeditated murder without any mitigating factors that would have allowed the panel of judges to reduce the sentence.
"The traces of his saliva and bite marks on the victim’s chest and his fingerprints all are identical, while the kid kept giving inconsistent statements and hampering the court proceedings,” said Suharni.
According to information revealed in the trial, the events of the murder started when RA went to a factory worker dormitory where EP, the 19-year-old victim, lived. RA, who had only been acquainted with EP for one month, reportedly asked EP to have sex with him, but she declined. Irked, RA went out of the room and met two other males, R and IH. The three forced their way into the room, gang raped EP and then used a hoe to kill her in a particularly brutal fashion. (dmr)
