Rapist gets eight years in jail

TANGERANG: The Tangerang District Court sentenced a man on Thursday to eight years imprisonment for raping a woman in his rented house in Ledug village, Alam Jaya subdistrict, Jatiuwung, last September.

Presiding Judge Horasman Nainggolan said the defendant, Edi Susanto, 25, had been found guilty of raping the victim, who had just arrived from Central Java and was looking for a house to rent in the village.

The defendant, an ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver, told her that he knew a house for rent and then offered to take her there. After taking the woman around the village, no house for rent was found and the defendant took her to his rented house in the evening, where he sexually abused her.

Earlier, prosecutor Iwa Pria Wicaksana charged the defendant with violating Article 285 of the Criminal Code on rape, which carries a maximum punishment of 12 years in jail. The prosecutor then sought 10 years in jail for the defendant. --JP