An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life in prison for the rape of 13 students, in a case that has drawn national attention to sexual abuse in some of the country’s religious boarding schools. Bandung district court in West Java found Herry Wirawan guilty of raping 13 female students, all minors, and impregnating at least eight of them. Wirawan, 36, arrived in court in handcuffs and kept his head down as judge Yohannes Purnomo Suryo Adi sentenced him to life in prison. Last year two teachers at a boarding school in South Sumatra were arrested for sexually abusing 26 male students over the course of a year. And in 2020, a boarding school leader in East Java was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting 15 female students.

Source: The Guardian February 15, 2022 08:19 UTC