Heavy punishment for rape defendants urged<\/p>\n
TANGERANG (JP): Dozens of activists from the Sexual Crimes
\nHandling Network rallied at the district court here on Tuesday,
\ndemanding the court hand down heavy punishment to two Pakistanis
\ncharged with raping a local pregnant woman.<\/p>\n
Unfurling banners in front of the court, the activists
\nsuggested that judges and prosecutors handling the case try to
\nimagine such a nightmare befalling members of their own families.<\/p>\n
The activists protested while the court was holding a closed
\ntrial of rape defendants Salim Bat and Shabir Ahmad.<\/p>\n
The protesters claimed that the two defendants had raped the
\n27-year-old woman, SR, on March 21 in an empty house not far from
\nher house in Pondok Cabe Udik, Pamulang.<\/p>\n
Her lawyer, Safi'i, said he had asked the panel of judges led
\nby Sitinjak to severely punish the foreign defendants.<\/p>\n
\"The defendants should be given a heavy punishment because
\nwhen the defendants raped the victim, she was bearing her second
\nchild,\" Safi'i said.<\/p>\n
According to the lawyer, the two defendants raped Siti after
\noffering her a well-paid job at a kiosk in Sawangan, Bogor.<\/p>\n
The defendants then instructed the woman to go to an
\nintersection in the Gaplek area to meet someone who would give
\nher a job, Safi'i said.<\/p>\n
His client initially refused to go due to her pregnancy but
\nthe two insisted that if she wanted the job, she had to go that
\nnight, the lawyer said.<\/p>\n
Finally, Siti decided to go to the intersection.<\/p>\n
Not long after she arrived at the location, the two defendants
\narrived in a car driven by their driver, Safi'i said.<\/p>\n
He added that the defendants then invited Siti to get into the
\ncar to go to another place to meet someone, who would give her
\nthe job.<\/p>\n
Instead of meeting the woman with the other man, the two
\nPakistanis took her to an empty house and allegedly raped her,
\nsaying that her husband had borrowed Rp 8 million (US$960) from
\nthem.<\/p>\n
Afterward, the defendants later drove her back to her house,
\nSafi'i said.<\/p>\n
Suffering pain in her stomach and genitalia, the victim then
\nfiled a report at the Jakarta Police Headquarters on June 27.<\/p>\n
Safi'i said there was an attempt to blame the rape on the
\nvictim.<\/p>\n
\"We heard rumors that claimed my client had frequently hung
\nout in shopping malls, which isn't true,\" Safi'i said.<\/p>\n
Safi'i said that the woman was not able to attend the trial
\ndue to her weak condition after giving birth on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n
Safi'i did not disclose details of the woman's husband or
\nanything behind the alleged Rp 8 million debt.<\/p>\n
The trial will continue next week to hear witnesses'
\nstatements. (41\/jaw)<\/p>",
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