An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a teacher to life in prison for the rape of 13 students, in a case that abuse the girls aged 11-16 has shocked Indonesians since his case emerged last year.
Herry Wirawan who was was the owner and a teacher of an Indonesian boarding school, had raped the girls since 2016 and impregnated eight of them. They had given birth to nine children.
Prosecutors had urged the court to impose a death sentence.
But on Tuesday, a bench of judges in the Bandung District Court ruled that the 36-year-old would be sentenced to life in jail.
They also rejected prosecutors’ calls for Wirawan to be punished with chemical castration.
The years-long abuse was only discovered in May last year, when the parents of one of the victims discovered their child was pregnant.
The Indonesian government will pay up to 85 million Indonesian rupiahs ($5945; £4394) in compensation to each victim.
-with bbc.com input
