Several students have reported a staff member of the Jakarta International School (JIS) to the National Police Criminal Investigation Directorate (Bareskrim) for sexual assault.
The victims’ lawyer, O.C. Kaligis, said on Thursday that the suspect was not an outsourced janitor from PT ISS like those arrested in the first JIS sexual assault case, but was “higher up in the school”.
“There is a school staff member in a higher position who had been raping the victims,” Kaligis said. “The new victims are all Caucasians,” he revealed. However, Kaligis refused to disclose the precise number of new victims or the position of the suspect in the school.
According to Kaligis, the National Police began an investigation into the new case several days ago, but that it would be taken over by the Jakarta Police and merged with its investigation into the initial JIS rape case of a 6-year-old kindergarten pupil reported last month.
Meanwhile, the Jakarta International School (JIS) will not be taking action against any of its teaching staff or its principal, Timothy Carr, before all the trials have been heard concerning the alleged rape of several of its students.
Harry Ponto, a senior lawyer for JIS in the case, made the statement on Saturday in response to the Education and Culture Ministry’s director general of early childhood education programs, Lydia Freyani Hawadi, who recently urged JIS to fire Carr for negligence and failing to protect students from sexual assaults at the South Jakarta school.
She said that firing the headmaster would be a concrete move that JIS should take to indicate its seriousness about the case.
Harry said that according to an internal investigation of the kindergarten, there was no indication that the sexual attacks were the result of negligence on Carr’s part, and that the school’s foundation would not take any action before Carr and/or any other teachers were found guilty in the case.
“I think it is too early to fire Carr; the court has yet to prove that Carr was guilty by omission,” Harry told reporters.
The victims’ lawyer, O.C. Kaligis, said on Thursday that the suspect was not an outsourced janitor from PT ISS like those arrested in the first JIS sexual assault case, but was “higher up in the school”.
“There is a school staff member in a higher position who had been raping the victims,” Kaligis said. “The new victims are all Caucasians,” he revealed. However, Kaligis refused to disclose the precise number of new victims or the position of the suspect in the school.
According to Kaligis, the National Police began an investigation into the new case several days ago, but that it would be taken over by the Jakarta Police and merged with its investigation into the initial JIS rape case of a 6-year-old kindergarten pupil reported last month.
Meanwhile, the Jakarta International School (JIS) will not be taking action against any of its teaching staff or its principal, Timothy Carr, before all the trials have been heard concerning the alleged rape of several of its students.
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She said that firing the headmaster would be a concrete move that JIS should take to indicate its seriousness about the case.
Harry said that according to an internal investigation of the kindergarten, there was no indication that the sexual attacks were the result of negligence on Carr’s part, and that the school’s foundation would not take any action before Carr and/or any other teachers were found guilty in the case.
“I think it is too early to fire Carr; the court has yet to prove that Carr was guilty by omission,” Harry told reporters.
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