Bandung –
Calls for castration for Herry Wirawan for raping 12 female students in Bandung were made by a number of parties. However, Forensic Psychology Expert Reza Indragiri Amriel disagrees.
Reza, who is also a consultant to the Children’s Lantern Foundationa, assessed that the application of the castration law for child predators, Herry, was misguided. According to him, castration in Indonesia is actually a form of treatment.
“People are angry and urge depraved teachers in Bandung to be castrated. Castration is considered a painful punishment, torturing, which is commensurate with the crime of the predator. That is clearly misguided. Castration in Indonesia is not positioned as punishment, but as treatment or therapeutic treatment,” said Reza in a statement received by detikcom, Saturday (11/12/2021).
So, said Reza, castration is defined as treatment. Instead, he pushed for Herry to be punished even more severely. “So, it’s not painful, castration is actually a treatment. If people want predators to be made as sick as possible, then the death penalty is just a death penalty. But we need to revise the Child Protection Act first,” he said.
He also considered that if castration was carried out by force, it would backfire. Perpetrators who are castrated without personal desire, will be more savage if they have served punishment.
“Therapeutic castration is effective? Yes, such castration reduces the risk of recidivism. But such effective castration is castration that is carried out at the request of the perpetrator himself. Not a unilateral decision from a judge who ignores the will of the predator. If he is forced to castrate, be prepared to welcome him later as a mysoped predator. A super savage predator, super vicious, that’s what he will be,” he said.
From Herry’s case, said Reza, there are two questions that arise. For example, regarding the reason Herry did not ask the students to abort their fetus.
“In fact, usually, criminals try to eliminate evidence. Second, have the students not complained to their parents for years,” he said.
“As a result, although from a legal perspective, we call this incident a sexual crime, but from a psychological and sociological perspective, there is a question mark: what values and patterns of relationships are actually built between the perpetrators, victims, and their families,” he added.
(dir / ern)
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