2 Perpetrators Of Rape Of 8-Year-Old Boy In Denpasar Sentenced To 8 Years In Prison

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The Denpasar District Court (PN) panel of judges, Bali, sentenced the perpetrators of child detention, namely the defendants Heru Kiswanto (24) and Made Wahyu Ryoga (18) to eight years in prison.

Panel of Judges Hari Suprianto during a trial at the Denpasar District Court in his ruling stated that the two defendants legally and convincingly committed a criminal act of protecting children.

"Declaring that Defendant 1 Heru Kiswanto and Defendant II Made Wahyu Ryoga have legally and convincingly carried out a series of tricks, a series of lies with children," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, March 26.

The verdict is four years lower than the demands of the Public Prosecutor (JPU) of the Badung Attorney General's Office, Agung Satriadi Putra, who charged the defendant with imprisonment for 12 years at the trial on Thursday, March 7, 2024.

The defendant's actions violated Article 81 paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) in conjunction with Article 76 D of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 17 of 2016 concerning the stipulation of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2016 concerning the second Amendment to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 23 of 2002 concerning child protection into Law in conjunction with Law No. 35 of 2014 concerning amendments to Law no. 23 of 2002 concerning child protection.

In addition to corporal punishment, the two defendants were required to pay a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to three months in prison.

The thing that burdens the defendant is that it has damaged the future of the victim with the initials KD.

Regarding the judge's decision, both parties, both the prosecutor and the defendant's legal adviser stated that they accepted.

Previously, the prosecutor's indictment revealed that the two defendants and one of the other child perpetrators with the initials IKS (separate prosecution files have been sentenced to three years and six months), persuaded the KD victim to hang out.

However, instead of going to hangout, the defendant took the victim to the house of the defendant Wahyu. At that place, the victim was fed with alcohol and after that he forced the victim.