The Termination Of The Case Of Sexual Abuse By East Luwu State Civil Apparatus To 3 Of His Biological Children Is Questioned

Legal Advisory Team for the victims, Rezky Pratiwi. ANTARA/Darwin Fatir

MAKASSAR - The alleged case of child molestation and rape by an ASN with the initials SA (43) in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi, against three of his own children reported by his mother, RS, in 2019, was again questioned by the public after going viral on social media because the case was stopped by the police. .

"Since the beginning of this case, in December 2019, we as a team of legal advisors have questioned when the case was stopped," said the victim's legal advisory team, Rezky Pratiwi, at the LBH Makassar office, South Sulawesi, as reported by Antara, Thursday, October 8 night.

He stated that from the beginning he considered that this case should be continued so that cases of sexual violence against children could be exposed clearly.

"Until now, even though our position remains the same, this case must be reopened, and for that the Police must reopen and continue the process of this case file," he said.

The three children are brothers, each with the initials AL (8), MR (6) and AL (4), who were victims of sexual violence reported by the reported father in Malili District, East Luwu Regency, who was reported by his ex-wife, as the mother of the victims. last December 2019.

According to him, the journey of this case is quite long and has only been widely discussed by the public after it was reviewed by the media after it was terminated in December 2019. In fact, the legal process carried out by the mothers of the victims did not receive legal assistance and other services.

Indeed, from the start, he said, he sought help from the Lutim TP2A, but did not receive proper treatment. His party also suspected that there was maladministration, because only a mediation process was carried out which brought together the victims directly with the reported father, always his father.

It is also suspected that the mentoring process has partiality considering that the reported party is an ASN at the local Regional Government Inspectorate. So the results of the assessment are not objective. And it is very unfortunate that the results of the TP2A assessment are used as material to stop the investigation.

Investigators also concluded that there were no injuries (visum results), and that his mother was considered to have a waha (psychological disorder), so that the argument arose and then the South Sulawesi Police agreed to stop the investigation when the case was held again in March 2020. Meanwhile, from the new facts collected, the victim is currently looking for justice in Makassar City, is not in accordance with the results of the examination in Lutim.

"Why do we think it is important to reopen the case. First, this case was terminated very early, prematurely. Two months after being reported, an administration was immediately made to stop the investigation. But no other witnesses were examined, apart from the children, the complainant and the reported person. So no clues were found from other witnesses," he said.

Second, he continued, the child victims were not accompanied by their parents during the examination, nor were there any other assistants, lawyers or other social institutions. In addition, the whole process took place very quickly, so investigators said there was not enough evidence.

"From a psychologist's examination in Makassar, it was concluded that sexual violence was carried out by his father. There were even other perpetrators who did that to these three children. This information is all uniform, even the youngest child can demonstrate how it was done by them," he said.

Separately confirmed, the Head of the UPT for the Empowerment of Women and Children (P2TP2A), South Sulawesi Province, Meisye Papayungan confirmed that this case had been going on for three years.

In fact, the case has been terminated due to the issuance of a Stop Investigation Order (SP3) from the East Luwu Police on December 10, 2019.

"The case was terminated because there was not enough evidence, based on the results of the child's VeR and the psychiatric post-mortem of the reporting mother. Her mother was dissatisfied and reported again to P2TP2A Makassar. At that time she asked for a re-visum for comparison. We also wrote a letter to organize the case at the Regional Police," said Meisye.

This case, he said, was related to the victim's mother who reported that her ex-husband SA was suspected of committing sexual violence to the molestation of her child, until she received legal assistance by the Makassar LBH.

Responding to the termination of the child molestation case, the Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Police, Police Commissioner E Zulpan, through a press release stated that based on the results of the investigation by investigators at the General Criminal Investigation Directorate (Ditreskrimum) of the South Sulawesi Police, no criminal acts of obscenity were found on the three children.

From the results of the investigation, he said, the case was temporarily suspended until strong evidence was found.

His party also responded about the re-emergence of this case and it is currently being discussed on social media regarding the reporting of alleged cases of child sexual crimes in the Malili sub-district reported by the hospital's mother against her ex-husband, SA is known as an ASN at the East Luwu Regency Government Inspectorate, because the case was terminated.

"So this is an old case, yes, the case was not continued, because investigators did not find enough evidence," said this middle-ranking officer with three jasmine flowers.

"There is no naming of suspects in the process, because during the investigation of the incident there was no evidence to support the occurrence of the incident," he said.