Suspected child molester caught

Suspected child molester caught

DENPASAR, Bali: Police arrested on Thursday afternoon a man
suspected of sexually molesting a two-year-old girl in Taman
Hamlet of Kerobokan village, some eight kilometers west of
Denpasar.

"Fortunately, the officers came in time, otherwise the suspect
would have been mobbed to death by the girl's relatives and
neighbors," Badung Police detective chief Sr. Insp. Husein
Abubakar said on Friday.

The 19-year-old man, Fachturosi, whose barber shop is in front
of the victim's house, confessed that he had entered the room of
the two-year-old at 2 p.m. and then sexually molested her but he
denied allegations that he had raped the girl.

"I was in the process of removing her underwear when her
mother entered the room and furiously attacked me," he said.

The mother also screamed hysterically for help, drawing dozens
of her relatives and neighbors to the scene who unceasingly beat
him until police officers arrived and took him to the Kuta police
station.

After a short interrogation, Fachturosi was transferred to the
Badung Police precinct for security reasons.

"We are afraid the victim's family might harm him," a police
officer said. (zen/lup)