Handling Cases Of Sexual Violence Of Dozens Of Schoolgirls In Batu City, East Java Police Explores TKP Results

Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police, Kombes Gatot Repli Handoko (ANTARA)

SURABAYA - The case of alleged sexual harassment with the reported founder of a school in Batu City, East Java, with the initials JE is still being handled. The East Java Police have conducted a crime scene investigation (TKP).

"Currently, investigators from the Ditreskrimum of the East Java Police are still investigating the results of the crime scene, so that allegations of sexual abuse of minors at SPI are clear," said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Police, Kombes Gatot Repli Handoko, Wednesday, June 2.

The police have examined a number of people, namely witnesses and reporters. Investigators have also asked for information from the victims.

"We are also still collecting evidence, so that we will call the alleged perpetrator (JE) for examination," he said.

Previously, Chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) Arist Merdeka Sirait, accompanying three of the dozens of alleged victims, reported the alleged crime of JE to the East Java Regional Police SPKT, Saturday, May 29.

Based on the victim's statement to Komnas PA, allegations of sexual violence by JE have occurred repeatedly from 2009 to 2020. Not only at SPI schools, said Arist, allegations of sexual and physical violence against children were reported when JE and the victims visited abroad.

In addition, JE is also suspected of committing physical or verbal violence, and is suspected of committing a crime of exploiting children for economic purposes.

Meanwhile, JE's lawyer, Recky Bernadus Surupandy, said his client as the reported respected every stage of the legal process carried out by the police.

"We are also collecting data and information, which will prove that the reporting is not true, and the client has never done what was alleged," said Recky.