A few weeks ago, another pitiful
crime occurred in one street of Jakarta.
A little girl who was an elementary student has been brutally murdered and
found in one box where her hands were tied and the clothes improperly disheveled.
She was tortured, raped and sodomized by her ruthless killer and in the
beginning; it was really difficult for the police to solve this case.
Fortunately, the murderer was
caught after several tests and investigations also guided from smart police’s
dogs who can track the traces during that time.
He was recognized as
thirty-something pedophile recidivist of drugs criminal case and had been in
prison for sometimes. He opened one small shop near the street where he threw
the box which contained the victim's body. His place used to be a place where some of the
children of her age and teenagers often hung around. The police made him the
primary suspect after the lab result of the sperms left in her body and DNA
report from the forensic department. That time actually, he was accused for
another case when he was held in the police station. He was being reported as an
assault and rapist for a 15 years old girl who lives in the same neighborhood.
After more than 2 weeks of
thorough investigation, the police were able to finish this case with many
unbelievable facts surrounding the murder. Firstly, the girl (victim) came from
a broken home family with divorced parents. She lived with her father while her
mother lives somewhere else, in a very small crowded house with nearly 11
members together with her uncles, aunts, and other relatives. She often played
in her murderer’s shop along other children without realizing his evil
character. She was known as a good student and a friend for her teacher and
classmates at school. She was claimed missing one day on her way home after school
before being found dead in the box with pitiful condition. Meanwhile, the
killer, after several interrogations, admitted of killing her. He tried to
eliminate all the evidences by burning them but eventually couldn’t get away
from the police after the lab result came out. He also did a lot more crimes to
several other children although not to the point of killing them. He conducted
sexual abuse and harassment then threatened them to shut their mouths if they
want to be safe. He was under drugs’ influence when he committed the rape and murder.
In brief, it was really horrible to even just to imagine how it was happened.
This is a second sad picture of the broken children’s
rights for a good, healthy and safe/secured living environment after Engeline’s
case. Yes, in the end the criminal suspect is caught, but is it enough? I guess
not. The representative of children protection commission also stated that this
sort of case is only a small part of a huge iceberg. The law is not strong and
powerful enough to protect and prevent for the same case from happening again
in the future or to make the criminal terrified to repeat their crimes. The
world is indeed getting crazier and terrifying despite a double-edged advanced technology, social
media and way of life. The only way to do it is by protecting our children
ourselves, not to easily believe even closer people or relatives who live among
us. Since it is rarely came from strangers. We just need to be wise enough to
see and act towards what is really happening to the children and around our
neighborhood.
(I'm really concerned about this case and inspired me to draw and write about it on a whim. The story itself is not related to the fashion or graphic, but only the illustration, the same as Engeline's article before)
