SEMARANG - Police have arrested a couple in Semarang City, Central Java, who is suspected of being the perpetrator of throwing away babies resulting from their illicit relationship.
Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Semarang Polrestabes AKBP Donny Lumbantoruan said the disclosure was made based on the results of CCTV inspections at the location where the baby was dumped and checked at a number of maternity sites.
The three-day-old baby, the result of the relationship between DRM (31), a resident of Ngaliyan and ADA (41), a resident of Manyaran, Semarang City, was found in a cardboard box in front of a resident's house on Jalan Taman Woloto, West Semarang, last Thursday.
According to Donny, the baby was born by DRM at a maternity house in West Semarang on October 11, 2022.
"We checked with one of the maternity houses. It turned out that it was true that the person concerned gave birth at that place," he said in Semarang, Antara, Friday, October 14.
The officers then secured the two perpetrators in separate places based on the data obtained. The two couples first became acquainted about two years ago or during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donny said the couple agreed to leave the newborn baby girl in front of a resident's house with the intention of being treated. According to him, both of them felt ashamed because the baby was the result of the dark relationship.
For their actions, the couple who neglected their child was charged with Law Number 23 of 2022 concerning child protection.
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