Court of Indonesia condemned today in death a teacher for him rape 13 girls Islamic school, accepting the appeal of the prosecutors who requested that the death penalty while he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment.
The teacher’s case Viraguan hand shocked Indonesia and brought to the fore the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country’s religious boarding schools.
After Handi was sentenced to life in prison by a Bandung city court in February, prosecutors, who had asked him to death penaltyfiled an appeal.
«We punish the accused with the death penaltySaid the judge in a statement posted today on the court’s website.
From 2016 to 2021, Hand sexually abused the 13 girlswho was between 12 and 16 years old and left eight of the girls pregnant, a judge said in February.
Indonesian officials, including the minister for child protection, had also called for the death penalty to be imposed, although the country’s human rights commission, which opposes the death penalty, said it was not appropriate action.
Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has tens of thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that are often the only way to educate children from poorer families.
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