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)