Disaster Indonesian court sentences teacher to death for raping 13 students

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Herry Wirawan (36), a former teacher and founder of an Islamic boarding school, who is accused of raping 13 school girls between 2016 and 2021, sits during his verdict trial at the district court in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia February 15, 2022.​

An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison.

The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country's religious boarding schools.

After he was sentenced to life in jail by a court in the city of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had called for the death penalty filed an appeal.

"(We) hereby punish the defendant with the death penalty," the judge said in a statement on Monday posted on the Bandung High Court's website.

Ira Mambo, Herry's lawyer, declined to comment on whether there would be an appeal, citing a need to see the full ruling from the court.

A spokesperson for the local prosecutor's office also said it would wait to receive the final ruling before commenting.

Between 2016 and 2021, Herry sexually groomed the 13 girls, who were between 12 and 16 years old, and impregnated eight of his victims, a judge said in February.

Indonesian officials, including the country's child protection minister, had also backed calls for the death penalty, though the nation's human rights commission, which opposes the death penalty, said it was not appropriate.

Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim majority country, has tens of thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that often provide the only way for the children of poorer families to get an education.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Firing squad is the cheapest form of State execution. The chemicals for lethal injections cost millions of dollars because only a handful of companies actually manufacture it.

Baking soda in one arm, vinegar in the other. Each execution would cost 25 cents and the result would be spectacular.

It's like our government isn't even trying to come up with solutions.

 

[babaGAReeb]

Firing squad is the cheapest form of State execution. The chemicals for lethal injections cost millions of dollars because only a handful of companies actually manufacture it.

thats still precious wasted bullets

should use guillotine or noose or just push them off a cliff

 

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

Waiting for the USA to condemn Indonesia; just like they condemned Singapore for caning an idiot US citizen who went tagging.

There was a Brazilian once that went to Indonesia to sell drugs which is punished by death there so our then president Dilma pleaded to their government to spare him, but he was executed nonetheless. A few months later there was a summit or something where her and then Indonesian president were present, so she decided to break protocol and give him a total cold shoulder the entire event to show how much of a meanie gürl BOSS she was and also for the lolz. I swear Brazilian politics is a cursed topic.

This article leaves out the part where he got a bunch of them pregnant and then used the babies for begging purposes

It says that he got 8 of them pregnant, but doesn't mention that he used the babies for extortion. What did he do?

Firing squad is the cheapest form of State execution. The chemicals for lethal injections cost millions of dollars because only a handful of companies actually manufacture it.

I think we're too far behind on execution methods, it's time we adapt more humane forms of capital punishment.

 

[Pee Cola]

His faith must be pretty weak if he had to start on the 72 virgins before he died. Allah willing, the other 59 will be withheld from him when he gets to the other side.

 

[mold]

It says that he got 8 of them pregnant, but doesn't mention that he used the babies for extortion. What did he do?

he was the head of a charity school and he used the babies to ask for mo money

 

[No Exit]

How the fuck did they get 26 male witnesses to vouch for these girls?

Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim majority country

Take a guess.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I am surprised they allowed men to teach at such schools? Regardless, his ass needs to be strung up.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

remove satay

 

[Fascist Frederick]

But did he c....

"Between 2016 and 2021, Herry sexually groomed the 13 girls, who were between 12 and 16 years old, and impregnated eight of his victims, a judge said in February."

Oh... I guess he did.