An Indonesian schoolboy was cleared of serious abuse charges Monday for stinging a female classmate with a bee, a “crime” that took the country’s legal system a year to resolve.
Nine-year-old David Yusuf was charged with inflicting serious abuse and faced almost three years in jail.
But in a rare stroke of common sense, judge Sutriadi Yahya of Surabaya district court, East Java, let the third-grader off the hook.
“This case shouldn’t have been brought to court. It could have been settled amicably by the school and the parents involved because it’s about normal children’s naughtiness,” Yahya said.
“Because of that, we’re acquitting him of the charges... We leave it to the parents to guide him.”
The court heard that Yusuf had taken a bee from a swarm buzzing around a coconut drink stall near his school in March last year and planted it on his classmate Dian Nirmalasari’s left cheek, giving her a sting.
The girl’s furious parents reported him to the police.
Yusuf’s mother, grocery shop owner Any Sulistyowati, cried as the verdict was read.
“We’re satisfied with the judge’s decision. We will look after our child properly,” she told reporters.
Indonesia’s legal system is notoriously corrupt and inconsistent. A survey of foreign business executives by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy in 2008 ranked Indonesia’s judiciary last against 12 other Asian countries.
(AFP)
印尼一名男童拿一隻蜜蜂去叮女同學，被依重傷害罪起訴，其「罪行」經該國司法系統一年的審理，週一獲判無罪開釋。
九歲的大衛．尤舒夫被依「加重傷害罪」起訴，可能被判處三年左右的有期徒刑。
但東爪哇蘇臘巴亞地方法院法官蘇崔亞迪．葉哈亞，卻罕見地依照常理判斷，放了這名三年級學生一馬。
葉哈亞說：「這個案子根本不該鬧上法庭，應該要由校方和雙方家長心平氣和地解決，因為這只是一般孩子的調皮舉動。」
「因此，我們宣告他無罪釋放…我們將管教的責任交給他的父母。」
法院得知，去年三月尤舒夫在學校附近的椰子水攤捉了一隻蜜蜂，把牠放在班上女同學黛安．倪爾馬拉莎里的左頰螫咬。
這名女童的父母憤而報警。
法官宣告判決時，尤舒夫經營雜貨店的母親安妮．蘇里絲懷堤喜極而泣。
她對記者表示：「我們對法官的判決感到欣慰。我們以後會好好管教孩子。」
印尼的司法制度以其貪腐及判決標準不一而惡名昭彰。根據國際政經風險顧問公司二ＯＯ八年對外籍企業主管的調查顯示，印尼的司法系統在亞洲十三個國家中敬陪末座。
（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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