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)