Three Times Pregnant Raped, PPPA Facilitates DNA Tests For Bloody Relations In Bengkulu

Illustration of police lines. (ANTARA).

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) will facilitate DNA testing in handling cases of alleged sexual violence in blood between siblings and siblings in Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu.

"A DNA test will be carried out facilitated by the Ministry of PPPA and other legal remedies in accordance with statutory regulations, including if necessary using customary law," said Deputy for Child Special Protection of the Ministry of PPPA Nahar, quoted from ANTARA, Thursday, April 18.

Nahar said this DNA test was important because in this case there were two police reports with two suspected perpetrators.

"To prove the first LP (Police Report) with a neighbor, a DNA test is needed," said Nahar.

In this case, he continued, the victim's neighbor was still the reported status. Meanwhile, in the second report, the suspect is the victim's older brother who has been detained by the police.

Previously, it was revealed that the rape and blood relationship of the brother with the initials K (21) and brother R (16) in Rejang Lebong Regency, Bengkulu.

It is suspected that her sister raped her sister since 2021. During this period until now, her sister has experienced three pregnancies, two of which have miscarried and one has given birth to a boy who is now two years old.