PADANG - A joint team of the Prosecutor's Office arrested a fugitive in a case of sexual abuse from the city of Payakumbuh, West Sumatra (Sumbar).
"The convicts we caught in the Muko-muko area, Bengkulu Province without resistance, on Tuesday, July 17 evening," said Assistant Attorney General for Intelligence for Sumatra, Agustinus Hanung Widyatmaka, accompanied by the Head of the Payakumbuh District Attorney's Office, Ulil Azmi, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 16.
He explained that the arrest of the fugitive was carried out by a joint team from the South Sumatra Attorney General's Office and the Payakumbuh District Attorney's Office.
The inmate who was arrested was a man named Bayu Putra Andesta (26) who had been on the run for about five years since 2021.
He said that after being arrested in Bengkulu, the convict was immediately taken to Padang and then taken to Payakumbuh City to serve his sentence.
He said that with the arrest of the prisoner, the West Sumatra Attorney General's Office has arrested eight prisoners in recent months, out of a total of 30 people.
"There is no safe place to hide for fugitives, whoever it is, we will definitely chase them. Therefore, it is better to surrender properly," he said.
Head of the Payakumbuh Kajari Ulil Azmi said the case that ensnared the convict was a case of molestation against a minor.
"The relationship between the inmates and the victim is a teacher who teaches with a student, the inmate has committed his act several times," he explained.
In this case, the prisoner was initially sentenced to five years at the district court level, then continued to the appeal level.
At the appeal level, the convict was declared onslag, that is, it was proven legally and convincingly, but the act was not a crime.
The matter then continued to the cassation level at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia with a prison sentence of two years, until finally the ruling had the force of law (inkrah).
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