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Islamic School Teacher who Raped 13 Students Leaving Eight Pregnant, Now Faces Death Penalty After His Life Sentence was Upgraded
The case of teacher Wirawan had shocked Indonesia and shone a spotlight on the need to protect children from s*xual violence in the country’s religious boarding schools.
After he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in the city of Bandung in February, prosecutors who had called for the de*th penalty filed an appeal.
The judge in a statement on Monday posted on the Bandung High Court’s website said “(we) hereby punish the defendant with the de*th penalty.’’
Between 2016 and 2021, Wirawan sexually groomed 13 girls, who were between 12 and 16 years old, and impregnated eight of his victims, a judge said in February.
Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim majority country, has thousands of Islamic boarding schools and other religious schools that often provided the only way for the children of poorer families to get an education.
