Alleged molester detained in Padang

PADANG, West Sumatra: A 53-year-old man identified as Rustam is under police detention for allegedly molesting nine male junior high school students.

"As of Monday, we have found nine victims, all of them students, who admitted that they had been sexually molested by the suspect," Adj. Sr. Comr. Estuning Widayat said here on Monday.

Rustam reportedly forced the students to commit sexual acts after inviting them to his house to watch pornographic films.

"He forced the children to act out the scenes they had seen in the porno films. The goings-on were discovered when one of the students reported it and his teachers immediately went to the police," the officer said, adding that the police were still awaiting medical examination results to determine whether the boys had been sodomized. (28/edt)