Virgiawan Amin, one of five cleaners, listens to the judge's verdict in Jakarta on Dec. 22, 2014, during his hearing over sexual abuse and violence on minors. Five cleaners were jailed over the sexual abuse of a young boy at one of Indonesia's most prestigious international schools, in a scandal that has rocked Jakarta's expatriate community.BAY ISMOYO/AFP / Getty Images
An Indonesian court has sentenced five janitors to up to eight years in prison over the rape of a kindergartner at an international school in Indonesia.
The custodians contracted to work at the Jakarta International School were arrested in April following reports from parents of a six-year-old boy who claimed to have been sodomized. A sixth suspect died by suicide while in custody.
Four of the male defendants were sentenced Monday to eight years, while the only woman in the case received seven years.
All the defendants were also fined to pay $8,000 respectively or serve three more months in jail.
The school is attended by children of foreign diplomats, expatriates and Indonesia's elite. It has 2,400 students aged 3 to 18 from about 60 countries.
A Canadian who taught at the school, Neil Bantleman of Burlington, Ont., and teaching assistant Ferdinant Tjiong are facing trial in Indonesia over allegations of sexual abuse in an unrelated case. Bantleman has called the allegations against him "baseless and completely false," and an Indonesian court has rejected his plea to have the indictment dismissed.
With a report from The Canadian Press