Police to Trace Victims in Frenchman Pedophilia Case

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Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Nana Sudjana (second from left) together with Minister of Social Affairs Juliari Batubara (second from right) accompanied by Metro Jaya Police Director General Kombes Pol Tubagus Ade Hidayat (left) and Chairperson of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) Susanto released the arrest of a male citizen from France has the initials FAC alias Frans (65) at Mapolda Metro Jaya, Jakarta, on Thursday (9/7/2020).

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The Jakarta Police have arrested a Frenchman identified as FAC and seized 305 recordings of illegal sex acts that FAC allegedly committed with 305 different minors. However, the police are facing a challenge in identifying the minors in the recordings, as their data is not recorded in any national population database like the data of adult citizens.

“The victims are underage and their data is not yet stored and integrated with their electronic ID cards. We do not have the list of [the victims’] identities and we can only identify them from the recordings. We have to be really careful in asking the other [identified] minors and match [their looks] with the recordings,” Jakarta Police chief detective Sr. Comr. Tubagus Ade Hidayat said in Jakarta on Friday (10/7/2020).