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Indonesian court sentences teacher to death for raping 13 students

By William E. Lawhorn
April 4, 2022
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Herry Wirawan (36), a former teacher and founder of an Islamic boarding school, accused of raping 13 schoolgirls between 2016 and 2021, sits during his verdict trial in Bandung District Court, West Java Province, Indonesia February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Heru Asprihanto

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JAKARTA, April 4 (Reuters) – An Indonesian court on Monday handed down the death sentence of a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment.

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

After he was sentenced to life in prison by a Bandung city court in February, the prosecutors who had requested the death penalty appealed.

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“(We) hereby punish the accused with the death penalty,” the judge said in a statement posted on the Bandung High Court website on Monday.

Ira Mambo, Herry’s lawyer, declined to say whether there would be an appeal, citing the need to see the court’s full decision.

A spokesperson for the local prosecutor’s office also said they would wait to receive the final decision before commenting.

Between 2016 and 2021, Herry sexually groomed the 13 girls, who ranged in age from 12 to 16, and impregnated eight of his victims, a judge ruled in February. Read more

Indonesian officials, including the country’s child welfare minister, had also backed calls for the death penalty, although the national human rights commission, which opposes the death penalty, said it was not appropriate.

Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, has tens of thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that are often the only way children from the poorest families can get an education.

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Reporting by Stanley Widianto Editing by Ed Davies

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