Punishment too light

Punishment too light

From Kompas

Imagine how parents feel when they are faced with the fact that their under-age daughter is raped. Their grief will be even more intense knowing that the rapist is only lightly punished.

Our neighbor Cua C.H. (26) was sentenced to five months and 14 days in jail by the Bekasi Court on June 7, 1995. We have no choice but to write this letter, because the judge's decision has law binding power. The announcement of the sentence was made in the parents' absence. As a matter of fact, we were at the Court on June 7, 1995, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the sentence was passed, but we were told that there was no session on that day.

Obviously we are suffering both morally and materially. Is this justice?

S. RCHM

STW WJY

Bekasi, West Java