Rapist gets nine years in jail

Rapist gets nine years in jail

JAKARTA (JP): The West Jakarta District Court sentenced an
unemployed man yesterday to nine years in jail for raping an
underaged girl.

Presiding judge Bagus Sugiri said the defendant, Martimus
Troby, 26, raped a 13-year-old girl in a house on Jl. Block B in
the Merpati housing complex in Kalideres, West Jakarta, on July
19.

Sugiri said the defendant had visited the house, belonging to
Jusuf Sukeri, and met the victim, who worked as a housemaid.

The victim, who had known the defendant for three weeks,
allowed him to enter the house, the judge said. They began
watching television in the living room.

Sugiri said Troby, a resident of Jl. Kumbang in the Pegadungan
subdistrict, West Jakarta, began straggling the maid and forced
her to enter the bathroom.

He told the girl to remove her dress and threatened to kill
her if she shouted for help, the judge said.

Troby used his left hand to cover her mouth and raped the girl
on the bathroom floor, he said.

After raping the teenager, he returned to the living room and
continued watching television.

Troby told the victim take a bath but she managed to escape
and told neighbors that she had been raped, he said. The
defendant was later caught by local residents.

He was charged under Article 285 of the Criminal Code and the
prosecutor demanded he serve a 10-year jail. (jun)