The Vegetable Worker Who Molested His Stepdaughter Admits To Threatening The Victim Verbally For 6 Years

South Jakarta Deputy Chief of Police AKBP Harun and Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of South Jakarta Police when carrying out a case of molesting a stepdaughter at the South Jakarta Police/ Photo: Jehan/ VOI

JAKARTA - South Jakarta Metro Police Deputy Chief AKBP Harun revealed the stepfather's motive for having sex with his 17-year-old son at Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta. According to Harun, the suspect with the initials GP (31) has been interested in the victim, his stepson from the start.

"It turned out that the perpetrator had a crush on the victim, even though it was his stepson," said Harun to reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Thursday, March 31.

Harun confirmed that as long as the suspect carried out his actions, he only threatened verbally to the victim.

"According to the victim's statement, there was never physical violence, always threatening, threatened not to make a complaint," he said.

Because she couldn't stand the constant harassment, the victim finally decided to report it to her mother on Wednesday, March 30.

"Maybe because the victim was treated like that for almost 6 years, other actions were also carried out until finally the victim complained to her parents. So it was only in March 2022 (at the South Jakarta Metro Police)," explained Harun.

The police who received the report immediately made an arrest on the same day. Harun explained that his party secured a number of evidences in the form of clothes of the victim and the perpetrator at the time of the incident.

"The evidence we got was clothes in blue, pink, also T-shirts and the results of the post-mortem from the RSCM," he explained.

For his actions, the perpetrator was charged with Article 76 letter D Juncto 81 paragraphs 1 and 3 Juncto with Article 76 letter E in conjunction with Article 82 of Law no. 17 of 2016 the second amendment to Law no. 23 of 2002 concerning child protection. In addition, it is covered with Article 46 of the Law on Domestic Violence. 23 of 2004. The threat of a minimum sentence of 5 years and a maximum of 15 years with a fine of 5 billion.