Witness Statement Strengthens Jombang's Sexual Abuse Case, MSAT Defendant Alias Mas Bechi Chooses To Remain Silent

MSAT alias Mas Bechi/DOK ANTARA

SURABAYA - The Public Prosecutor (JPU) from the East Java High Prosecutor's Office, Sofyan, said that the testimony of one witness in the trial confirmed the alleged molestation case of the defendant Moch Subchi Azal Tsani (MSAT) alias Bechi.

"This time the witness is a victim and a reporter. His testimony is more corroborating," said Sofyan after the trial at the Surabaya District Court, Thursday, August 18.

The same thing was conveyed by the public prosecutor who is also the Head of the Jombang District Attorney's Office, Tengku Firdaus. He said that not only witness testimonies corroborate the alleged molestation case.

Prosecutors also brought a box of evidence, which was considered to strengthen the indictment containing cases of obscenity and rape.

"The prosecutor's team brought BB a box, there were several items shown to the defendant and witnesses. Clothes, pants (for example)," he said.

According to Firdaus, there are still three witnesses who cannot be examined today. The plan is that the three witnesses will be questioned in a marathon on Friday, August 19.

"The remaining three witnesses will be examined tomorrow starting at 13.00 WIB until finished," he said.

Meanwhile, MSAT alias Mas Bechi, the accused of sexual abuse, refused to comment on the witness' examination today. The son of a well-known kiai in Jombang asked the media to go directly to his attorney. "Don't be silly," he said.

Bechi's attorney, I Gede Pasek Suardika, assessed that the two witnesses presented in two trials were like fiction novels. He said that the testimony of two witnesses who were Bechi victims did not make sense.

"Many stories are lived with common sense, for example getting up early on the 7th and running until the 8th at 10pm, not sleeping by sharing activities," he said.

"I think it's difficult for ordinary people to do that. The second incident is that it is said that there was an alleged sexual intercourse on the same day in the same place by different people," he said.