Sorong Police threatened the sentence of 20 years in prison for the initial father of RS (27) who killed his own two-year-old biological child. The murder took place at their residence in Wawenagu Village, Seget District, Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua.

Sorong Police Chief AKBP Yohanes Agustiandaru confirmed that the hospital would be charged with multiple articles to account for its actions. The article imposed on the perpetrator is Article 80 paragraph (3), paragraph (4) in conjunction with Article 76 c of Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning amendments to Law Number 23 of 2022 concerning Child Protection and or Article 44 paragraph (3) in conjunction with Article 5 letter a of Law Number 23 of 2004 concerning the Elimination of Domestic Violence. "The threat of a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison with a maximum fine of Rp. 3 billion. If the perpetrator is a parent then the punishment can be increased to a third of the threat of punishment, namely a maximum of 20 years in prison," Agustiandaru said in Sorong, Friday, June 2, was confiscated by Antara. The unfortunate incident began when the perpetrator was sitting with the victim at their stall house in the Wawenggu area, Seget, Sorong, Tuesday, April 4 morning.

"At that time the victim was fussy and cried because he felt a pain in the head. The day before the victim was hit by the perpetrator on the head with wood," Agustiandaru explained.

Feeling annoyed with his son's behavior, the hospital again abused the victim.

In addition to hitting the victim's left shoulder, the perpetrator also hit the victim's chest while pushing the victim until the victim fell with the back of the head hitting the floor. Suddenly the victim immediately fainted. Seeing this, the hospital panicked. He tried to provide breathing assistance while pumping the victim's chest, but his efforts were in vain. The poor boy died in his own father's hands. After his child's body did not move anymore, the perpetrator then washed the victim's body and then buried the victim's body in the rented house. The police chief said the hospital was known to have separated from his wife. At that time, the RS wife was in Sorong City. This case was only revealed when the wife of the victim's mother was about to visit her child. "When his wife was about to visit the victim, the perpetrator tried to cover up for various reasons. The victim's mother felt suspicious and reported it to the Sorong Police on April 26, 2023," said Agustiandaru. When interrogated by Sorong Police investigators, RS admitted that she had abused her child to death and the victim's body had been buried in one of her room. The Sorong Police Team assisted by a forensic doctor from the Police Center for Health, the National Police, has also conducted an autopsy on the victim's body. The forensic team Pusdokkes Polri showed that the victim died from blunt object violence on the head, where the victim's skull bone was broken and bleeding occurred in the brain tissue. After the autopsy process was completed, the police handed the victim's body to the family to be buried on Monday, May 1. According to the Sorong Police Chief, the case became a special attention of the Sorong Police ranks.

"What is clear is that this case is our special concern to be resolved immediately, especially since this is related to domestic violence and the perpetrator is a biological parent so that it becomes the attention of the community," said Agustiandaru.


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