Judges Start Trial Of Youth Abuse Cases By Children Of DPRD Chairpersons

JAKARTA - The Ambon District Court judges held their first trial of the alleged criminal act of persecution committed by the defendant Abdi Aprizal Sheehan alias Abdi.

The defendant was the son of the chairman of the Ambon City DPRD, which caused a teenager to die.

The chairman of the Ambon District Court judges, Haris Tewa, accompanied by Lutfi Alzagladi and Helmin Somalay as member judges, held a trial in Ambon, Friday, with the agenda of hearing the reading of the indictment of the Ambon Attorney General's Office, Endang Anakode.

"To the court visitors, guard this problem well and we will educate each session. We do not discriminate between who he is, whether the governor's son or others, and during the process, both lawyers and victims or prosecutors should not try to meet us to give something," said Haris Tewa.

Public Prosecutor Endang Anakoda explained that the role of the defendant who abused people to death on Sunday (30/7) at 21:10 WIT took place in Talake, Nusaniwe District (Ambon City) to be precise in front of the residence of Bripka Alamsyah Bakker.

Based on the testimony of witness Muhammad Fajri Semarang, initially the witness and the victim rode on a motorbike from the direction of Ponegoro to his brother's house in Talake to return the borrowed jacket.

When entering Gapura, Talake Mosque hallway, witnesses and victims passed the perpetrator who was walking towards his house and almost hit so that the perpetrator chased witnesses and victims.

After the witness and the victim arrived in front of his brother's house and parked the vehicle, the victim was still sitting on the motorbike.

Then the witness came down and immediately faced the victim and was approached by the perpetrator who, without question, immediately hit the victim once on the head which was still protected by a helmet.

The perpetrator again beat the victim from the head that was the second time, after that the defendant hit the victim again for the third time at the front of the helmet.

A few minutes later the victim's brother came out of the house and the victim's position had his head down on the handlebar of his motorbike in a fainting condition.

The victim's brother immediately told the perpetrator that "if there is anything ose (you) are responsible" then the perpetrator said that "Beta (me) will be all responsibility" and then the perpetrator left the victim with the witness.

According to the prosecutor, the victim's brother, assisted by witnesses, then lifted the victim into the house with the aim of making him aware but the victim was unconscious.

At 21.25 WIT, the victim's brother immediately took the victim to Dr. Latumeten Hospital for medical treatment but at 21.45 WIT, the victim was declared dead by the hospital's medical team.

Based on the results of the etrepertum post-mortem by a doctor at Bhayangkara Ambon Hospital, there was bleeding in the head and nerves as well as respiratory problems in the victim Rafli Rahman sie due to a blunt object collision.

For this act, the defendant was charged with Article 354 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code concerning Serious Persecution which resulted in death, subsidiary Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code and or secondly, namely Article 359 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, the defendant's legal adviser, Munir Kairi, stated that he did not make an exception on the prosecutor's indictment and on that occasion he prayed that the victim's deeds of worship would be accepted by God Almighty.

The panel of judges postponed the trial until next week with the agenda of hearing the testimony of witnesses.