5 years demanded for rapist

5 years demanded for rapist

Prosecutor Mawardi Muchtar has demanded that the East Jakarta
District Court sentence a man identified only as Mar, 32, to five
years imprisonment for rape.

Prosecutor Mawardi told the court Wednesday that Mar, a
resident of Cakung Timur, was proven guilty of raping Mrs. Bar, a
divorcee who lives near his house, on Jan. 18.

According to the prosecutor, the defendant, who was extremely
drunk after drinking liquor at a street-side coffee shop in
Cakung market on the night, leapt into the backyard of the
victim's house after climbing a wall. He then entered the house
through a back door which Mrs. Bar had not locked.

Threatening her with a knife, the defendant, who has a record
of robbery, herded Mrs. Bar to a bed and then raped her.

Feeling exhausted, the defendant then asked Mrs. Bar to allow
him to stay in her house until sunrise. Mrs. Bar used this time
to flee and tell her sister, who lives nearby.

Police apprehended Mar at an intersection not long after he
left the victim's house. They seized a knife and a tablet of Pil
BK, a prescription drug, from him.

The trial was adjourned until July 20 to give the defendant
time to submit his defense. (has)