Alleged pedophile Robot's dossier to be completed soon

JAKARTA (JP): Central Jakarta Police have been working hard to complete a dossier of the alleged pedophile and killer of 10 boys -- Siswanto, alias Robot -- since the results of his DNA tests came in.

"We will send the dossier to the Central Jakarta Public Prosecutor's office before Oct. 8," Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira said yesterday.

Abubakar will be replaced by Lt. Col. Muhammad Ibrahim, who is currently the chief of the North Jakarta Police precinct. The handing over ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 8.

Abubakar, who will be promoted to colonel and will become the Palembang city police chief in South Sumatra, said that the pedophile case dossier is therefore his priority. "We have enough evidence," he said.

A forensic expert from Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Abdul Mun'im Idris, earlier said the suspect's DNA matched with the DNA in sperm found in one of the murdered boys.

Samples

The hospital took samples of the 32-year-old scavenger's blood and spittle on Aug. 8 for examination. The hospital had earlier examined the sperm found in the body of Asikin. The body of the 14-year-old street singer was found on July 5.

Asikin is one of four boys whose bodies were found in the Pondok Kopi area in East Jakarta. Four bodies were found in the defunct Kemayoran market in Central Jakarta. The remaining two were found in Kroya and Purwokerto in West Jakarta.

Abubakar said the results of the test would reinforce the charges against the suspect.

"Besides that, we also have evidence, including razors and rope that the suspect admitted to having used in the killings," he said.

Robot admitted to having killed 12 boys between 1994 and 1996, but police have only found 10 bodies. He killed each boy by strangling them with a rope. He then cut each victims' stomach with a razor.

The suspect sodomized the shoeshine and street singer boys -- between nine and 16 years old -- in the second floor of the Senen market in Central Jakarta before killing them.

Robot was arrested on July 27 at a railway station in Tegal, Central Java.

He who was born in Ketandan village, Batang regency in Central Java, and has lived in a slum area at Gaplok market, Senen district in Central Jakarta since he was six years old. (jun)