Students arrested for alleged rape

Students arrested for alleged rape

JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested six students for the
alleged rape of a classmate, an officer said Saturday.

An officer of the Tambora Police sub-precinct, West Jakarta,
said that the six were identified only as Ad, Bd, Al, Lo, Fr and
Dn, while the victim was identified as Ia. She is 16 years old.

The alleged rapists and the victim are students of a private
senior high school in the area.

The officer, who asked not to be named, said that on Wednesday
Lo asked Ia and the five youths to come to his house in Tambora,
where they all ingested barbiturates. Ia reportedly lost
consciousness before the rape.

On the following day, Ia told her parents what had happened to
her. Her parents then reported the incident to police.

To date, only one of the suspects has confessed to the
offense, the officer said. "But we believe that all of them were
involved in the rape."

Intensive questioning is still underway and the police are
waiting for the medical report on the victim. (29)