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Child Rapist Herry Wirawan Sentenced to Death by Bandung High Court

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Convicted rapist Herry Wirawan at Bandung District Court on February 15. (Photo: ANTARA FOTO/Novrian Arbi)
Convicted rapist Herry Wirawan at Bandung District Court on February 15. (Photo: ANTARA FOTO/Novrian Arbi)

TheIndonesia.id - Bandung High Court has handed down death sentence to convicted rapist Herry Wirawan who raped 13 students at an Islamic boarding school after it granted appeal by the High Prosecutor’s Office for death penalty after Wirawan was initially sentenced to life by Bandung District Court.

Judge Herri Swantoro read the sentence on Monday, April 4.

“Granting appeal from prosecutors and, therefore, sentencing the defendant with death penalty,” Swantoro said in Bandung.

Judge also ordered Wirawan to be detained and to pay restitution to his victims.

Wirawan, owner and teacher of an Islamic boarding school in Bandung, West Java, raped 13 students who were studying in his pesantren in the span of five year. Some of the victims became pregnant and gave birth to nine babies.

Judge decided that all babies are to be handed to the women and children protection unit at West Java provincial government upon permission from their respective families, and that periodical evaluation will be conducted.

“If evaluation concludes that victims are mentally and psychologically ready to accept and raise their children, and if the situation allows, the children will be returned to each victim,” statement from the court read.

The court will also seize Wirawan’s wealth and assets in form of land and building – including all his rights in Manarul Huda orphanage, Tahfidz Madani pesantren, and Manarul Huda boarding school – to finance victims and their children.

Besides the damning consequences faced by victims and their babies, the court cited the use of religious symbol in his crime as another aggravating circumstance in Wirawan’s case because it harms Islam’s image and might prevent parents from sending their children to study in pesantren.

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