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Indonesia court to free teachers charged with sexually abusing students

Published 2015-08-13, 11:23 p/m
© Reuters. Indonesia court to free teachers charged with sexually abusing students

JAKARTA, Aug 14 (Reuters) - An Indonesian court will free
two international school teachers who were jailed for sexually
abusing students, the pair's lawyer and the brother of one the
teachers said on Friday, in a case that critics say was fraught
with irregularities.
"The previous verdict has been overturned by the Jakarta
high court because there was no evidence of sodomy," the pair's
lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea told reporters.
Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman and Ferdinand Tjiong, a
teaching assistant from Indonesia, were previously found guilty
of abusing kindergarten students at the Jakarta Intercultural
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The court in the Indonesian capital had sentenced Bantleman
and Tjiong to each serve 10 years in prison and pay a fine of
100 million rupiah ($7,600).
"We are working to understand next steps to have them
released in the next 12 hours," Guy Bantleman, Neil Bantleman's
brother, told Reuters by email.
Indonesian authorities were not immediately available for
comment.

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