A rare case of matricide in Indonesia in which a girl, 12, was arrested for the murder of her mother has put the country’s treatment of juvenile suspects in the spotlight.
The child, identified only as AL due to her age, is suspected of having killed her mother, Faizah Soraya, in the early hours of the morning on December 10, when the older woman was asleep in their home in the North Sumatran city of Medan.
Soraya was found with 26 stab wounds to her body after AL allegedly attacked her with a...
Indonesia’s juvenile justice system under scrutiny after girl, 12, kills mother
Published 6 days ago
Source: scmp.com

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