Alleged pedophile and serial child killer Bayquni, also known as Babe. (Antara Photo)
 

Alleged Jakarta Serial Child Killer Claims New Victims

Confessed serial child killer Bayquni has admitted to killing four more street children, Jakarta Police said on Sunday, noting that the number of victims may well continue to rise.

“The four [new] victims were murdered in Jakarta,” Jakarta Metro Police chief of violent crime Adj. Sr. Comr. Nico Afinta said. Police are planning to release their names today.

The latest confessions by the 49-year-old known as “Babe” bring to 14 the number of children he allegedly killed and defiled before mutilating and disposing of their bodies.

Afinta said the number of victims may yet increase, adding that he personally didn’t believe the motive behind the alleged murders was merely sexual.

“If, as he claimed, he had been killing to satisfy his sexual urges since 1995, just imagine how many street children had fallen victim to him,” Afinta said.

A psychologist who examined Bayquni has said that the man derived pleasure from having sexual intercourse with corpses, provided that he had killed the victim himself.

City police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said investigators were still reviewing other unsolved child murder cases to see if there’s a connection to Bayquni, a street hawker who until his arrest last month had been caring for street children and sheltering some in his home.

Bayquni, who police say appears senile, only remembers his victims when shown their photos. “So it’s rather tricky, because on the one hand we have to unravel this case, but on the other hand we have to immediately complete the dossier,” Boy said.

The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Anak) has previously said the true number of victims could be as high as 15, as evidenced by the photographs Bayquni had collected .

“According to the street kids looked after by Babe, the ones in the pictures were his favorites. He could have more than 15 victims,” Komnas Anak Secretary General Arist Merdeka Sirait said.

Bayquni was arrested on Jan. 8 following the discovery of the mutilated body of a 9-year-old boy, identified as Ardiansyah, in a slum area in Cakung.

Prior to Sunday, Bayquni had confessed to killing 10 street children between the ages of 7 and 12. The playmate of one of the victims also remains missing.

Afinta previously said that Bayquni confessed to starting his killing spree in 1998 and changed his modus operandi twice.

“At first, his pattern was to kill the victims by strangling them with a rope before he sodomized them and disposed of their bodies,” Nico said.

He changed his pattern by chopping his victims in two after strangling and sodomizing them. Later he began carving his victims into four parts, Nico said. --- SOURCE

Serial killer may have died in prison due to 'incompetent' health care

Notorious serial killer Arthur Shawcross lived in Binghamton -- in between his two killing sprees -- before he was driven from the community in 1987.

Now, a state report is alleging state prison officials failed to recognize Shawcross was suffering from a serious medical condition that may have caused his death in prison in 2008.

Shawcross may have died because of "grossly negligent, incompetent and inadequate medical evaluation and treatment," says the December report from the state Commission of Correction.

Shawcross had served 15 years in prison for the 1972 rape and killing of two Watertown children when he was placed by the state parole board in Binghamton. Outrage from Binghamton residents in 1987 resulted in Shawcross being moved by parole first to Delaware County and then to Rochester.

A year after leaving Binghamton, Shawcross began a second killing spree, murdering 11 Rochester-area women, most of them prostitutes, between 1988 and 1990.

The commission report, obtained by Gannett through the Freedom of Information Law, chastises the state prison system about its care for Shawcross in the days before his death.

State Department of Correctional Services officials responded they've taken actions to ensure missteps, like those outlined in the report, do not happen again. Administrative actions were taken against two nurses, unidentified in the report, who apparently failed to properly recognize a medical issue with Shawcross and impeded his requests for help, the report says.

When he died, Shawcross, 63, was serving a sentence of 250 years to life -- one of the state's longest sentences -- at the Sullivan Correctional Facility.

Correctional Services spokesman Erik Kriss said Shawcross, regardless of his heinous crimes, deserved reliable medical care.

"Was Shawcross notorious? Yes," said Kriss. "There really is an effort to be blind to what crimes the inmate committed."