Woman killed with son on lap

Woman killed with son on lap

JAKARTA (JP): A three-year-old boy was found crying on the
bloody lap of his murdered mother on Tuesday in Bekasi, east of
Jakarta, police said.

Suprihayati, 26, had been stabbed by an identified person in
her home in Duren Jaya subdistrict, East Bekasi

The boy, Yogi, was covered in her mother's blood and crying
out for her, a neighbor who found them said. Suprihayati had deep
gashes to her lips, neck and chest.

The neighbor, Abdul Hakim, said he heard screaming from
Suprihayati's house at around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. He said he
saw a man leave the house. He then entered and found the dead
mother and her son outside her bedroom.

Suprihayati together with her child arrived from her village
in Pekalongan, Central Java, three months ago to join her
husband, Kurdi, 27. Her eldest child, 10-year-old Devi, stays in
the village with her grandmother.

Kurdi was selling vegetables at a local market when he was
notified of his wife's death. The body was taken to Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital's morgue.

The police have yet to find a motive. Savings of Rp 1 million
were initially missing from the house but were later found.

Kurdi said the body would be taken to Pekalongan to be buried.
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