Nine-year-old primary school student Putri Nur Fauziah was found dead in Kalideres, West Jakarta late last Friday. The circumstances in which her body were found – naked and placed inside a small cardboard box with signs of horrifying sexual abuse – have shocked Jakarta and put the police under intense pressure to find her killers.
But nearly a week on, the police still haven’t been able to identify the person or persons who committed the vile act.
“We’re always optimistic, all [of the investigations] that we’re doing are leading us to the point where we’ll uncover who the killers are,” said West Jakarta Police Chief Rudy Heryanto Adi Nugroho, as quoted by Vivanews today.
Jakarta Police Chief Tito Karnavian said the police have reason to believe that the killers are pedophiles.
“It’s very likely that the culprits forced themselves sexually upon the victim, and because the victim was a child, we believe the killers have mental problems,” he told Vivanews yesterday.
According to Putri’s school friends who last saw her on Friday afternoon, Putri was picked up by two men on a motorcycle who claimed to know her father. Putri was found dead just 5km away from her house later that evening.
