Baekuni, also called Babe and now 48 years old was arrested last week in East Jakarta after the body of a nine year old boy was discovered in Cakung. Babe was a gang leader of street kids and was found suspicious of child molestation and murder. He admitted that he killed at least 7 kids less than 12 years old.
Four of them where found already. Baekuni admitted that he sodomized all his victims, sometimes even after he strangled them to death. One of the kids from his gang was found headless last week at a flood canal construction project in East Jakarta. Most of the victims were not from his gang. An official said that Babe, a serial killer and rapist, is not mentally ill.
Street kids are a normal picture in the streets of all the big cities in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta. They can be found at nearly every traffic light in the city begging for money. Some of these street-kids are not even four years old…
