Police arrest suspected kidnapper

Police arrest suspected kidnapper

DEPOK: Police arrested on Tuesday a 29-year-old woman
suspected of kidnapping the two children of her employer whom she
worked for as a nanny for only three days.

The mother, Ruth Siahaan, 32, a resident of Griya Pancoran Mas
housing complex, said the new nanny was gone along with Isack,
five, and Rebecca, three, when she and her husband arrived home
from work at about 8:30 p.m. on Monday.

"We found a bag full of the babysitter's clothes in front of
our house. The ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers in the neighborhood
said they saw a woman leaving with my children," she said, adding
that she got the nanny from an agency.

The police found the three in Kelapa Gading, East Jakarta, at
about 10:30 p.m.

Pancoran Mas Police chief Adj. Comr. Antonius Sutjipto said
the suspect claimed that she received a phone call from a woman,
who called herself Ibu Ira, and asked her to bring the children
to a place in Kelapa Gading, offering her Rp 200,000 (US$24) as
payment.

"We are investigating the whereabouts of the caller," he
added. --JP