Little Levina is not raped, police say
Little Levina is not raped, police say
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Little Levina was not raped, police say
JAKARTA (JP): Although the six-year-old Levina Dwisy, whose body was found at Ancol, North Jakarta, in late March was not raped by her attacker she was sexually molested, according to a police officer.
"The autopsy report issued by the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) states that there is no evidence that the girl was raped before her death," deputy to the chief of crime investigation unit of the North Jakarta police precinct, First Lt. R. Rasyidi, told reporters on Wednesday.
The report does state, though, that a blunt object had been inserted into the vagina of the kindergarten student.
"However, we have not yet found any suspects in connection with the murder of this little girl," Rasyidi said.
Earlier press quoted police sources as saying the girl was murdered after being raped.
Late last month, chief of the North Jakarta police precinct, Lt. Col. Heru Susanto, claimed the lover of Levina's father had commissioned the murder.
During police questioning, Levina's father named two women as his close friends.
"However, we found no evidence to connect the two ladies with the murder," Heru said.
Heru believed that there is a woman who had a special relationship with Levina's father but had been angry with him for some reason.
"Perhaps, the lady who had fallen in love with him found later that the man was a married guy," he added.
"Unfortunately, Levina's father did not want to tell us the truth about his love affairs," Heru said.
Nobody
When asked about the latest progress of the investigation, Rasyidi, who is close to the case, said: "Just ask the chief, but so far we've arrested nobody."
Rasyidi also claimed that police investigators have not been bribed by anyone, including Levina's father, to stop their investigation.
"We haven't stopped investigating and we always report every inch of a new development to our chief," he said.
Levina, the second of three children of an ethnic Chinese bicycle shop owner, left her house on Jl. Pantai Sanur in the plush Ancol Timur real estate in the morning of March 24.
Wearing her pajamas, the little girl tried to join her parents in their morning exercise with her bike. It was the last time she was seen alive. Levina was found under the bushes near a temple the next morning.
He attacker had obviously used her clothes to strangle her. Her bicycle was found nearby.
At least 13 people have been questioned including two fishermen living nearby, the housemaids and the driver of the victim's family as well as the security guards at the elite housing complex where the deceased's parents live.
Five special teams have been set up to investigate. Each team has been assigned to conduct a specific task. (bsr)