Robot 'needs psychiatrist'<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The lawyer defending a pedophile tried for
\nkilling six boys asked the Central Jakarta District Court
\nyesterday to send his client to a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n
The lawyer showed reporters his letter of request after the
\nclosed court session yesterday.<\/p>\n
The letter said the defendant Siswanto, alias Robot, should be
\nsent to a psychiatrist to find out whether he was responsible for
\nsodomizing and killing the boys.<\/p>\n
Lawyer Febry Irmansyah said outside the court in January that
\nhis client seemed mentally unwell.<\/p>\n
Robot, 33, from Pekalongan Central Java, is accused of killing
\nsix boys aged between 11 and 15 years after sexually abusing
\nthem.<\/p>\n
The former scavenger in Central and East Jakarta is also being
\ninvestigated to see if he is linked to the deaths of four other
\nboys in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
According to police, Robot confessed to killing 12 boys.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in Tegal, Central Java on Aug. 5 after a
\nmassive police manhunt for a serial killer.<\/p>\n
The boy's bodies were found between September 1995 and August
\n1996. (13)<\/p>",
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