REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have arrested four women for their alleged involvement in the abduction of a four-month-old baby named Sobari at Central Jakarta's Pasar Senen market recently, a police officer stated here on Tuesday.
"Sri Mulyaningsih, 39; Mini, 56; Kokom, 43; and Uripah alias Dessy, 33, were arrested from different locations," Jakarta Metropolitan Police's General Crimes Chief Sen. Coms. Krishna Murti noted.
The police have charged the suspects for violating the Criminal Code's Article 328 and Article 83 juncto Article 76F of Law Number 35 of 2014 on Child Protection, he remarked.
The abduction was carried out by the suspects on the pretext of offering a permanent job and infant clothing to the ill-fated baby's mother, Dian Ekawati.
According to Murti, Ekawati met one of the suspects for the first time when she was selling instant coffee at the yard of Fatahillah Museum in West Jakarta on February 23.
The four suspects then urged Ekawati who carried her baby to travel to Pasar Senen market by taking a public mini-van M-12 to buy the promised infant clothing.
Without doubting the intentions of the four women, she left her baby with one of the suspects who gave her a debit card for withdrawing money from a bank's automatic teller machine.
As Ekawati failed to withdraw money using the debit card, she came back to the place where the four women were waiting for her. However, she did not find them and her baby, Murti affirmed.
Ekawati then reported the incident of the planned abduction of her infant at the nearest police office, he added.
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