Makassar - The Pinrang Police General Crime Investigation Unit arrested a teenager with the initials S (16) who is suspected of molesting 16 children in Pinrang Regency, South Sulawesi.
"We have secured . This was revealed after one of the victims reported it. Currently, there are 16 children as victims," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Pinrang Police, First Inspector (Iptu) Andi Reza Pahlawan when confirmed by journalists, Friday.
At that time, one of the children accompanied by his parents reported the perpetrator for his alleged act of molestation of the victim's genitals. The victim, when examined, said he had pain in his anus.
Based on the victim's report, the Satreskrim team immediately conducted an investigation and development of the report until finally arresting the perpetrator at his house, Pinrang Regency. From the perpetrator's statement, the action had been going on for a long time with children as victims around his house.
"So, this perpetrator is still a student, in high school. He carried out his actions from junior high school until he entered high school against his victims," said Reza.
His actions were uncovered after one of the children told his parents about what happened to him and said that his anus was sore, allegedly after being sodomized by the perpetrator.
According to the perpetrator's statement, the method of committing the act was by luring the victim with money and lending him a cell phone and taking him for a walk, but he only carried out his depraved actions in quiet places.