South Sulawesi Police Ask LBH Makassar To Submit New Evidence Of Rape Of 3 Children In East Luwu, Call Mainstream Media News Hoax

Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Police, Kombes E Zulpan. ANTARA

MAKASSAR - The South Sulawesi Regional Police invited the Makassar Legal Aid Institute (LBH) to submit new evidence related to the case of rudapaksa or the alleged molestation and rape of three children by SA's father in East Luwu Regency, after the SP3 was issued in 2019, then went viral on social media.

"Because LBH is also in the reporting team, we are open when the victim's family wants to open this case, there must be (new) evidence submitted to investigators," said Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Police, Kombes E Zulpan, to reporters in Makassar, quoted by Antara, Friday, 8 October.

The South Sulawesi Regional Police are now open by giving space to LBH as a legal assistant for the reporter to submit new evidence for the case, so that it can be followed up.

"We are open now, if the victim and LBH have new evidence, please give it to us, then we will follow up," he said.

Kombes Zulpan explained that to open a case through a lawsuit, you must include new evidence and invite LBH to file it. However, if LBH Makasssar considers the National Police to be unprofessional, legal steps are in the rules of the Police, namely to pretrial the investigators.

His party also invited that if the family did not accept the decision to issue a Termination of Investigation Order (SP3) of the East Luwu Police in 2019, they could propose other legal steps.

"If the victim's family does not accept it, we can do a pretrial," said Kombes Zulpan.

Although the pretrial opportunity is open, because they think the investigation is not true in their eyes, make no mistake, investigators can also prosecute if the case is not proven.

When asked whether a comparison visa from another hospital could be used as a novum or new evidence, he said, the visa process could only be issued by the police. That is, a police letter to a particular hospital, in accordance with applicable legal procedures.

"Who is this visa, the visa is in the criminal process. Says in obscenity it must be from the Police who issued the letter requesting the visa to the hospital," said Kombes Zulpan.

According to Zulpan, in the case of alleged tampering with three children in East Lum, there have been post-mortem results, even twice. The first time was at the Malili Health Center, but they did not believe it, then it was carried out a second time at the Bayangkara Hospital Makassar, the results were the same, there were no signs of damage to the sexual organs of the child.

"What if there is no post-mortem results, the police want to do an examination of the father, they can't. Even the results of the post-mortem (sexual organ damage) don't exist, this must be understood, don't be fooled by hoaxes," he said.

Kombes Zulpan said that what was circulating on social media and quoted by the mainstream media regarding the circulating articles, was not true or a hoax.

"Obviously it's a hoax, it's called, my child was raped, even though this was not raped or even molested, how can he say he was raped. This child was three years old when he was raped, five years, seven years. The language is wrong, right, he knows where he was raped ," he said, alluding to the journalistic product.

Previously, SA reported that her ex-husband, RA, was related to allegations of sexual violence against her three biological children, each with the initials AL, MR, and AL, in 2019. Later the police stopped the case because there was not enough evidence, and this case resurfaced in October 2021 because it went viral on social media related to the SP3 process.

The legal advisory team from LBH Makassar assessed that there were irregularities in the investigation into the case, so it had to be reopened.

"The police have the authority. Therefore, we urge the Police once again to follow up on our findings that have been reported at the South Sulawesi Regional Police so that they can be reopened and taken over for follow-up, so that the children can get justice," said the advisor to the reporter, Rezky Pratiwi. from LBH Makassar, told reporters.