Meatball Vender Raped 13 Children, Surabaya Police Say
Amir Tejo | May 17, 2010
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375337"The children complained of severe pain after being sodomized by Saman, police said."
No kidding!!
15 years imprisonment is NOT enough for Saman or any other child molester/abuser/killer. These kids will carry the psychological damage all through their lives.
Life imprisonment or death penalty. Make it as severe consequences as drug trafficking.
Just last month a little girl died in a village somewhere in the area of Bogor after being repeatedly beaten and and in the end poisoned by her own mother. This was not a one time event but the violence was a long lasting one - also there the neighbours and the stepfather knew about the suffering but nobody had seemingly the guts or the interest to release the girl from her torture (with the girl finally meeting her death) and report it to the authorities. I am not sure if this is due to a general disinterest and negligence in helping a person in need (which makes me wonder especially in a tight knitted community as a village seems to be) or the "shame" this would cast on the village if revealed (the common explanation if something like this happens!) or if it is utter mistrust into a proper reaction of authorities...
Reading through this report it is hard to understand how this nonce remained free to carry on molesting children for so long. A total failure by the adults and law enforcers in their duty to protect the innocent young. Those who were aware of the danger and did nothing should be thoroughly ashamed.
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Surabaya Police allege a food vendor used promises of meatballs and money to rape at least 13 children.
The accused pedophile was arrested on Sunday morning and has admitted to the crime, saying he suffers from a sexual disorder because he was raped repeatedly as a child, police said.
Saman, who lives in a boarding house in Tandes, Surabaya, works as a bakso (meatball) vendor, according to police.
Saman told police he came into contact with children near his boarding house and began molesting them when his wife and three children were away.
He said he earlier had sexual relations with fellow food vendors and turned to children only in 2008, according to police.
“The modus operandi of Saman is to lure the kids with a bowl of bakso and money, usually Rp 5,000 [55 cents]. This is very tempting for children, especially because it is a poor area,” said Anom Wibowo, chief detective at the Surabaya city police.
Saman’s deviant sexual behavior was apparently an open secret in the area, police said.
Before becoming a food vendor, Saman was a canteen guard at an elementary school cafeteria in Tandes district.
His sexual proclivities were known by the teachers at the school, police said. Some students had even reported being groped by him.
Saman was expelled from the school but not prosecuted. He then took up selling bakso until he was arrested by police. The arrest was based on complaints filed by parents of some of the alleged victims.
The children complained of severe pain after being sodomized by Saman, police said.
Saman faces several charges of child abuse under the Criminal Code and could receive a maximum of 15 years imprisonment if he is convicted.
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