Herry Wirawan (36), a former instructor and founding father of an Islamic boarding college, who's accused of raping 13 college women between 2016 and 2021, sits throughout his verdict trial on the district courtroom in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia February 15, 2022.
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JAKARTA, April 4 – An Indonesian courtroom handed down a demise sentence on Monday to a instructor for raping 13 women at an Islamic college, upholding an enchantment by prosecutors for the demise penalty after he had initially acquired a sentence of life in jail.
The case of instructor Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone a highlight on the necessity to defend youngsters from sexual violence within the nation’s spiritual boarding colleges.
After he was sentenced to life in jail by a courtroom within the metropolis of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had known as for the demise penalty filed an enchantment.
“(We) hereby punish the defendant with the demise penalty,” the decide mentioned in an announcement on Monday posted on the Bandung Excessive Courtroom’s web site.
Ira Mambo, Herry’s lawyer, declined to touch upon whether or not there can be an enchantment, citing a have to see the total ruling from the courtroom.
After he was sentenced to life in jail by a courtroom within the metropolis of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had known as for the demise penalty filed an enchantment.
“(We) hereby punish the defendant with the demise penalty,” the decide mentioned in an announcement on Monday posted on the Bandung Excessive Courtroom’s web site.
Ira Mambo, Herry’s lawyer, declined to touch upon whether or not there can be an enchantment, citing a have to see the total ruling from the courtroom.
A spokesperson for the native prosecutor’s workplace additionally mentioned it will wait to obtain the ultimate ruling earlier than commenting.
Between 2016 and 2021, Herry sexually groomed the 13 women, who had been between 12 and 16 years outdated, and impregnated eight of his victims, a decide mentioned in February.
Indonesian officers, together with the nation’s little one safety minister, had additionally backed requires the demise penalty, although the nation’s human rights fee, which opposes the demise penalty, mentioned it was not acceptable.
Indonesia, the world’s greatest Muslim majority nation, has tens of hundreds of Islamic boarding colleges and different spiritual colleges that always present the one means for the kids of poorer households to get an training.
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