The Alor NTT Police Have Examined 17 Witnesses In The Case Of Sexual Harassment With A Prospective Candidate For Pastors With The Initials SAS

Head of Public Relations of the NTT Police, Kombes Ariasandy. ANTARA/Kornelis Kaha

ALOR - The Alor Resort Police investigator team, East Nusa Tenggara, has examined 17 witnesses related to cases of alleged sexual violence committed by unscrupulous pastorial candidates with the initials SAS with the number of victims reaching 14 people. "Currently, the number of witnesses who have been examined is 17 people and it is possible that the number will continue to grow," said Head of Public Relations of the NTT Police KombesAriasdy in Kupang, Antara, Tuesday, September 20. A total of 14 victims of abuse of prospective SAS priests consisted of 10 children, and four adults. The immoral act by SAS has taken place from May 2021 to March 2022 and his actions are carried out around the church environment where SAS is assigned. The former South Central Timor Police Chief added that a number of witnesses will also be summoned in the near future. "One of them is the Chairperson of the GMIT Sinode Council, Merry Kolimon, whose examination process will be carried out at the Alor Police," he added. Proses penyelidikan kasus dugaan kekerasan seksual itu terus berlanjut dan sampai saat ini jumlah korban sudah 14 orang. The Alor Police stated that the suspect in the alleged case of sexual violence in Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, with the initials SAS, was threatened with the death penalty for his actions. This is because the SAS suspect was charged with Article 81 paragraph 5 in conjunction with Article 76 letter d of Law Number 17 of 2016 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning Child Protection. In addition, the suspect was also charged with weighting because the victim was more than one person. In addition to being threatened with the death penalty or life imprisonment, the SAS suspect is also threatened with a minimum imprisonment of 10 years and a minimum of 20 years at the latest. Ariasandy also said that the SAS suspect was also threatened with being charged with Article 27 paragraph 3 in Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) because in carrying out his actions the suspect recorded or made videos and photographed the victims before even after carrying out the action.