Sick cases: Teacher rapes schoolgirls, man rapes sister-in-law
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Sick cases: Teacher rapes schoolgirls, man rapes sister-in-law
PORT MORESBY: Two disturbing rape cases were heard in courts in Papua New Guinea yesterday (Thursday July 4, 2019).
A primary school teacher, Kenneth Ulei, 33, was charged with sexually touching and raping girls aged between 17 and 18 at Hayaukono Primary School in Nuku.
And Patimos Ahu’u Ben, 25, was jailed nine years for raping his brother’s wife!
Are these acts and crimes helping to portray a civilised nation?
PNG Cyber Monitor reproduces below details of the court proceedings of the two cases as published by The National:
Teacher in court over students’ rape
By CLIFFORD FAIPARIKA PRIMARY schoolteacher appeared before the Vanimo District Court charged with raping and sexually assaulting four of his female students in West Sepik, senior provincial Magistrate Sasa Inkung says.
“Kenneth Ulei, 33, from Wati village, Nuku district, West Sepik appeared on charges of raping and sexually touching girls aged between 17 and 18 years old at Hayaukono Primary School in Nuku,” he said.
Inkung said Ulei was accused of sexually touching the girls in the classroom.
“He had called each of these girls after all the other students had left for the day. And then he touched them sexually between June 7 and 15. “He also allegedly raped one of the girls,” Inkung said.
Inkung said that Ulei appeared in court last week and was refused bail.
He will appear again next month before the same court for committal proceedings.”
Meanwhile, Inkung also said that five Indonesians had been sentenced to a total of 30 years jail for harvesting 14kgs of beche de mer at Angel Island in Aitape.
“They were also fined a total of K55,000 for harvesting beche de mers using scuba diving gear, hooks and underwater torches to harvest between May 28 and May 30.
Freddy Waromin 38, Soleman Waromin, 23, both from Hamati Papua Province, and Okto Fianus Anakai, 54, Levi Laie, 38, and Heber Soruh, 36, all from Nusa Tengara, Timor province, are now serving their terms at the Vanimo jail after the Court sentenced them last Friday for breaching the National Fisheries Act.
The court also allowed a bail for K1,000 to Raymond Kapor, 50, from Angel Island, for allegedly arranging the Indonesians to harvest beche de mers at Angel Island.
Kapor will appear before the court on August 7 for trial.
Another Indonesian, Septel Hababut, 30, from Engross village, Jayapura, Papua Province, with two Warapu villagers in Aitape, Dennis Merne, 26, and Manuel Morik, 26, appeared before the court yesterday.
They have been remanded in Vanimo jail for allegedly harvesting beche de mers near Yako village last Wednesday.
They will appear in the same court next month.
“Kenneth Ulei, 33, from Wati village, Nuku district, West Sepik appeared on charges of raping and sexually touching girls aged between 17 and 18 years old at Hayaukono Primary School in Nuku,” he said.
Inkung said Ulei was accused of sexually touching the girls in the classroom.
“He had called each of these girls after all the other students had left for the day. And then he touched them sexually between June 7 and 15. “He also allegedly raped one of the girls,” Inkung said.
Inkung said that Ulei appeared in court last week and was refused bail.
He will appear again next month before the same court for committal proceedings.”
Meanwhile, Inkung also said that five Indonesians had been sentenced to a total of 30 years jail for harvesting 14kgs of beche de mer at Angel Island in Aitape.
“They were also fined a total of K55,000 for harvesting beche de mers using scuba diving gear, hooks and underwater torches to harvest between May 28 and May 30.
Freddy Waromin 38, Soleman Waromin, 23, both from Hamati Papua Province, and Okto Fianus Anakai, 54, Levi Laie, 38, and Heber Soruh, 36, all from Nusa Tengara, Timor province, are now serving their terms at the Vanimo jail after the Court sentenced them last Friday for breaching the National Fisheries Act.
The court also allowed a bail for K1,000 to Raymond Kapor, 50, from Angel Island, for allegedly arranging the Indonesians to harvest beche de mers at Angel Island.
Kapor will appear before the court on August 7 for trial.
Another Indonesian, Septel Hababut, 30, from Engross village, Jayapura, Papua Province, with two Warapu villagers in Aitape, Dennis Merne, 26, and Manuel Morik, 26, appeared before the court yesterday.
They have been remanded in Vanimo jail for allegedly harvesting beche de mers near Yako village last Wednesday.
They will appear in the same court next month.
9-year term for family rape incident
By ROSELYN ELLISONA 25-year-old man from Lihir in New Ireland was sentenced to nine years’ jail for raping his brother’s wife.
Patimos Ahu’u Ben was sentenced to nine years with hard labour at Kavieng jail.
Acting Judge David Susame told Ben that he had been convicted of raping a woman with no circumstances of aggravation.
“So you are liable for imprisonment for a maximum period of 15 years,” Justice Susame said.
The court heard that the prisoner was married with two children and was a subsistence farmer.
The court also heard that the prisoner had no prior conviction.
“Needless to say your first time status is diminished by the gravity of the offence you have committed, the likelihood of you getting a non-custodial sentence or payment of a fine is very slim,” Justice Susame said.
“This is because of the stern approach courts have taken and are taking in our present time in sentencing rape offenders.
“You have expressed remorse but I consider your remorse is not complete without you doing something tangible and reconciling with the family you have wronged well before the case was processed.”
The court heard that the prisoner raped the woman when her husband was in another village.
“You are married man, so is the victim as she is the mother of seven children,” Justice Susame told the accused.
“You took no regard of that and were driven by your uncontrolled sexual desire which you raped the wife of your own family member.”
While handing down the decision, Justice Susame told the court that rape by its nature was a serious crime that violated rights, privacy and dignity of a woman or a girl.
He said the society was calling for tougher deterrent sentences due to increasing occurrences of rape.
Justice Susame also said the courts could not be insensitive and turn a blind eye to those sentiments.
He explained that courts had a duty to protect people’s lives, especially women and girls.
Patimos Ahu’u Ben was sentenced to nine years with hard labour at Kavieng jail.
Acting Judge David Susame told Ben that he had been convicted of raping a woman with no circumstances of aggravation.
“So you are liable for imprisonment for a maximum period of 15 years,” Justice Susame said.
The court heard that the prisoner was married with two children and was a subsistence farmer.
The court also heard that the prisoner had no prior conviction.
“Needless to say your first time status is diminished by the gravity of the offence you have committed, the likelihood of you getting a non-custodial sentence or payment of a fine is very slim,” Justice Susame said.
“This is because of the stern approach courts have taken and are taking in our present time in sentencing rape offenders.
“You have expressed remorse but I consider your remorse is not complete without you doing something tangible and reconciling with the family you have wronged well before the case was processed.”
The court heard that the prisoner raped the woman when her husband was in another village.
“You are married man, so is the victim as she is the mother of seven children,” Justice Susame told the accused.
“You took no regard of that and were driven by your uncontrolled sexual desire which you raped the wife of your own family member.”
While handing down the decision, Justice Susame told the court that rape by its nature was a serious crime that violated rights, privacy and dignity of a woman or a girl.
He said the society was calling for tougher deterrent sentences due to increasing occurrences of rape.
Justice Susame also said the courts could not be insensitive and turn a blind eye to those sentiments.
He explained that courts had a duty to protect people’s lives, especially women and girls.
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