The Surabaya District Court has actually declared 50- year-old pastor Hanny Layantara guilty of sexual assault and sentenced him to 10 years’ jail time.
Presiding judge Johanis Hehamony said Hanny was found guilty of violating Short article 82 of the Kid Protection Law.
” We state the defendant Hanny Layantara guilty and sentence him to 10 years in prison and order him to pay Rp 100 million in fines or serve an additional six months in jail,” Johanis said on Monday as reported by kompas.com
He added that the panel of judges kept in mind 2 consider their sentencing choice, namely that the offender had actually declined to admit his wrongdoings and that his actions were inconsistent to his role as a spiritual leader.
The sentence matched the penalty required by prosecutors.
Hanny was jailed in Sidoarjo, East Java, on March 3, two weeks after his victim ' s family reported the abuse to the authorities.
He had actually supposedly been planning to run away the country at the time of his arrest.
The victim, now 26, stated that Hanny had sexually abused her from 2005– when she was just 12 years old– till 2011.
Hanny ' s lawyer, Abdurrachman Saleh, said he and his client would file an appeal versus the verdict.
” We disagree with the judges ' decision. We will appeal,” he said. (nal)
