Rejected a Cassation Appeal

he Supreme Court has rejected a cassation appeal filed by the Muarobulian Prosecutor’s Office in Jambi

in relation to the case of a 15-year-old rape victim 

charged for undergoing an illegal abortion.  
The girl had previously walked free after the Jambi High Court acquitted her of all charges in August last year,

but prosecutors appealed the case.

by rejecting the prosecutors’ appeal, the court had upheld the acquittal.

“This means the victim is free from all lawsuits,”.

Activists applauded the court’s decision, saying that

it was a good move for the protection of rape victims. 
“We have to realize that she was also a rape victim,”

the prosecutors’ statement was unreasonable

which argued that consensual sex resulting in pregnancy had taken place between the victim and her brother,.  
“A rape victim is a victim and she is still a child,”.