Sodomized boys detained

Sodomized boys detained

JAKARTA (JP): The police have concluded that six of the 17
male street children they detained on Thursday night in Central
Jakarta had been sodomized.

Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Abubakar Nataprawira
said the boys were arrested in public places, including the
Istiqlal mosque and the Senen and Sawah Besar railway stations.

"Our medical team found that six of the boys had been
sodomized," Abubakar said yesterday.

He said the boys aged between nine and 15 years were street
singers, three-in-one jockeys or shoeshine boys.

A detective said that one of the boys, identified as Siswanto,
had said that he was picked up by two men on Jl. Salemba some
months ago and taken to a house, which he could no longer
recognize.

At the house, one of the men sodomized the 11-year-old boy and
gave him Rp 150.000.

Abubakar said that Thursday night's operation was conducted to
help solve the recent sadistic murder of eight boys.

Four of the boys' bodies were found at the defunct Kemayoran
airport in Central Jakarta. The other four were found at Pondok
Kopi, East Jakarta.

The bodies were found with their stomachs torn out and their
necks wounded. They were either naked or semi-naked. In most
cases, the police's only clues were razors and the victims'
clothes found near the decomposed bodies.

East Jakarta Police have arrested three men accused of
sexually assaulting underaged boys. The men have admitted
sodomizing street children, but have denied killing them. (jun)