Suspected child killer tells of pleasures

JAKARTA (JP): The man suspected of sodomizing and killing eight boys said yesterday that his murders left him feeling happy and satisfied.

At a preliminary interrogation at the Central Jakarta police precinct yesterday, 33-year-old Siswanto -- alias Robot -- admitted to strangling his victims, slashing their stomachs and drinking their blood.

Robot said he would pick up handsome boys at local markets and take them to the Dunia Fantasi amusement park in the Ancol Dreamland, North Jakarta. He would then drive them to Proyek Senen market in Central Jakarta, where he would have anal sex with them on the second floor.

"I'm a scavenger and earn between Rp 5,000 (US$2.12) to Rp 6,000 a day. I saved my money to make the boys happy at Dunia Fantasi," he told the chief detective and reporters.

Tickets at Dunia Fantasi cost Rp 21,000 per person.

He said that he only remembers the name of one of the eight boys.

"I don't remember the others because I only met them once. I gave them an average of Rp 1,000 each."

He said that after killing the sixth boy, he told his mother Daliah, who lives in Pekalongan, Central Java, "Mom, I killed a boy again."

"Why did you do it again?" was her reply, according to Robot.

He said he also told her that he had killed two boys in Kroya and Pekalongan, but that he had not sodomized them.

"I felt less pleasure and satisfaction if I did not tear the boys' stomachs," Robot added.

He said he was more satisfied when he kokop (to drink, in Javanese) their blood.

"I kept the skins of their stomachs and wrapped them up with newspaper sheets for several days before I threw them away."

Drop-out

Robot said he grew up at a foundation for poor children called Yayasan Kamelia, on Jl. Galur, in Central Jakarta.

"I went back to my hometown in Pekalongan when I was six years old and returned to Jakarta when I was 10."

He said he dropped out of elementary school after the first grade and that he still cannot read.

He said he has been living with his godmother, Mak Unyil, near the Gaplok market in Senen, Central Jakarta.

"Mak Unyil shared her home with beggars in the area like me. I love boys, I don't like women or men. I don't know why. I could never marry a woman." (jun)