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)