Four-year-old girl raped by neighbor

JAKARTA (JP): Kebayoran Baru police in South Jakarta have arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of raping and molesting a four-year-old girl in his house on Jl. Pandan in Kramat Pela subdistrict, an officer said on Monday.

Kebayoran Baru Police chief Maj. Sudjatmo said the suspect, identified as Hasan Basri, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping his minor neighbor.

The arrest, he said, was made following the report made by the victim's parents to the police after the girl's grandmother found the girl's vagina bleeding.

"It was later identified that she had been raped by the suspect," Sudjatmo said.

During interrogation, the suspect, a junior-high-school dropout, admitted to have raped the girl three times, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, police said.

Sudjatmo said the young girl often stayed at the suspect's house while her parents were working.

The girl's parents often asked the suspect to look after their daughter, the officer said.

Hasan is detained at the Kebayoran Baru Police subprecinct pending further investigation. (jun)