Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Presumptive mode online prostitution at the artist’s hotel Cynthiara Alona the victims were carried out by courting them until being offered jobs by pimps.
“Some of the recruiting methods are courted, some are offered a ‘job’ so that the underage victim wants to do it,” said Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Yusri Yunus at Polda Metro Jaya, Friday (19/3).
By pimpikari, these underage children were then ‘peddled’ to masher men on social media through the Michat application.
“By using one social media, Michat offers the masher. There are seats, some deliver, there are pimps,” said Yusri.
This online prostitution is known to have been going on for three months. The rates are set from IDR 400 thousand to IDR 1 million.
“From there, they were divided, some Rp50 thousand, Rp100 thousand, how many hotels, until the victim accept how much, “said Yusri.
The police have previously named the artist Cynthiara Alona as a suspect in this online prostitution case.
He becomes a suspect in the role of a hotel owner and finds out there is prostitution there. Alona admitted to investigators that this was done to cover the operational costs of the hotel during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Apart from Alona, the police also named two other people as suspects. They are DA as pimps and AA as hotel managers.
From the results of a police search, the police found 15 minors along with a masher in 30 rooms in Alona’s hotel.
For their actions, the three suspects were charged with Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection and / or Article 296 of the Criminal Code and / or Article 506 of the Criminal Code with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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