American teacher accused of rape

American teacher accused of rape

JAKARTA (JP): A female physician has asked city police to
continue investigating an American expatriate who she said was
the father of her three-and-a-half year old son.

"I don't want to marry him. I don't need even a cent from
him," Sri Rahayu, 36, told The Jakarta Post yesterday.

"What I need is his written statement legalized by authorized
officials stating that he is the father of my son Gerry Indrabayu
Rukmana. That's all," said Sri Rahayu, better known as Yayuk.

Yayuk strongly believes that the father of her son, born on
Dec. 3, 1991, is Mark Thomas Rex, 37, an English instructor at
the American Language Training (ALT) center on Jl. R.S.
Fatmawati, South Jakarta. She said the man raped her in March
1991.

According to Yayuk, a police officer yesterday informed her
that her case was being reviewed by city police investigators.

It is expected that the police will soon issue an order
requiring Yayuk, Rex and Gerry to have a DNA test done.

"I really hope that this case can be settled as quickly as
possible so that Gerry, who has bule (Caucasian) features, knows
that he has a father, just like all his neighborhood friends,"
she said.

Based on Yayuk's version, Rex raped her at his house in South
Jakarta. She said Rex took her and her friend Marina to his house
after she and Marina spent hours at the Oscar pub on Jl.
Falatehan.

"As I got drunk, I was not aware of anything until I found
myself laying naked on the dirty floor of a room, probably a
storeroom, at the house," she said.

According to her, she then got up and collected her clothes.

"I suddenly realized what had happened and screamed when I saw
Mark trying to rape Marina in another room," Yayuk said.

Both of them left the scene in Yayuk's car immediately after,
she said.

Yayuk said that the whole incident occurred in one hour,
saying that they had arrived at the house at around 1:30 a.m.

She claimed Rex drove her car from the pub to his house
"because I realized that I was drunk," she said.

Rex could not be reached for comment yesterday.

"He's not in until Friday," director of the ALT office on Jl.
R.S. Fatmawati told the Post by phone.

A month after the incident at Rex's house, Yayuk found herself
pregnant.

She said that she refused to meet Marina, who apparently took
Rex's name card before leaving the house, following a heated
argument between them on their way home that morning.

As attempts to encounter Rex at the pub where they initially
met failed and she was unable to find his house, Yayuk decided to
keep quiet about the matter and married her longstanding fiance,
Ferry Satria, in June 1991.

Realizing "his baby" was of mixed ancestry, Ferry refused to
accept the child as his and immediately divorced Yayuk.

After bumping into Marina about one and a half years after the
incident, Yayuk discovered Rex's whereabouts.

"Mark refused to accept Gerry as his son, but accused me of
having sex with another bule," she said.

"I'm not that type of woman," she said.

Yayuk claimed that the night she met Rex was the first time
she had visited a nightclub and had drunk alcoholic beverages.

"I went to the pub simply because I wanted to improve my
English, as I know that the pub is frequented by English speaking
visitors," she said.

At the time Yayuk was a marketing manager at the Permata Hati
clinic. She now has her own small clinic on Jl. Palbatu I in
South Jakarta. (bsr)