'Goodbye Heroes', Remembering The Heroic Boy Killed When His Mother Was Raped

JAKARTA - Photo of Rangga (9), spread on many social media accounts. The action of the boy defending his mother who was about to be raped has attracted the attention of many people.

Rangga died because he was hacked by SA (36), the perpetrator of the rape of his mother with the initials DI in East Aceh, Aceh. The culprit was a murder recidivist.

A number of regional information Instagram accounts such as Medan; Makassar; Kutai Kartanegara from East Kalimantan to Kupang, NTT, uploading photos and chronology of the incident that killed the boy Rangga. "Little heroes from Aceh", "Goodbye Pahlawan" is the caption of the photo embedded in the upload.

Kasat Reskrim Langsa Police, Iptu Arief Sukmo Wibowo said SA left Tanjung Gusta prison, Medan several months ago after receiving COVID-19 assimilation.

The perpetrator who killed the child and rapist of his mother, SA, was arrested on Sunday, October 11. SA was arrested while hiding in an oil palm plantation in Alue Gadeng Village, Bireum Bayeun District, East Aceh.

According to the police, the perpetrator killed Rangga and then threw the child's body into the river. In Rangga's body, a sharp object wound was found.

Iptu Arief explained that Rangga was raped and murdered on Saturday, October 10 in the morning. The SA perpetrator, entered the DI house by prying the wooden door lock with a machete.

"Once the door opens, the perpetrator saw the victim was sleeping with the child. The perpetrator approached the victim and feel him. The victim woke up and saw the perpetrator beside her without clothes and holding a machete," said Inspector Ariel aceh.antaranews.com reported.

According to him, the victim woke up her child to run for safety. But Rangga chose to shout, until finally SA panicked and slashed the boy's right shoulder.

SA then slashed Rangga back, but was knocked back by his mother's right hand so he was injured. The perpetrator pushed the DI victim and then slashed Rangga's neck and stabbed his left shoulder and chest once.

After that, the SA perpetrator according to the police tried to rape DI. The perpetrator strangled the victim and knocked her head against a concrete road near her house.

The DI victim was taken by the perpetrator to a palm oil plantation and then raped again. The perpetrator's cruelty continued when the perpetrator returned home and brought the sack containing the body of the boy Rangga.

The body of the victim's child was found floating in the river, Sunday, October 11 afternoon. The child's body was found with injuries to several parts of the body.

Now the perpetrator of Rangga's murder is being prosecuted. The police charged him with layered articles, namely Article 338 jo 340 jo 285 jo 351 Paragraph (2) of the Criminal Code and or Article 80 of Law 35 of 2014 concerning amendments to Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning child protection. The threat of being sentenced to 20 years in prison, "said Iptu Arief.