A
man claiming to be responsible for the death of three people, whose remains
were recently unearthed in the compound of a seminary in East Nusa Tenggara, has
turned himself in to police.
A
Sikka district police official and head of the criminal investigation unit said
Tuesday that Herman Jumat Masan was in their custody and had confessed to being
involved in the death of Yosefin Keredok Payong and her two children. Both children
were fathered by him.
“He is now being
held in the district’s police station for further legal action. We have strong
evidence linking him to the loss of three lives,” the official
said.
Yosefin,
whose identity was confirmed through DNA testing, was reported missing in 2002.
She was a nun with the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the
Holy Spirit at the time of her disappearance.
Her
remains and those of her two children were discovered last week in the compound
of a school operated by the St Peter Major Seminary in Sikka district. They
have since been turned over to family members.
The
district police official said Masan arrived on Monday from East Kalimantan,
where the former diocesan priest – he left the priesthood in 2008 – was
employed.
In
a report on Wednesday, the Flores Pos – a publication operated by the Society
of the Divine Word – quoted Masan as saying Yosefin had an affair with him
while he was a priest and gave birth to their first child in 1999.
"The boy was
born alive. Yosefin and I could not bear the social stigma of this birth. I
covered his mouth. Eventually he died and I buried him in front of the house in
Lela,” Masan told Flores Pos, referring to a facility operated
by St Peter Major Seminary.
“The second
birth took place around March 2002. The mother could not deliver safely because
the placenta could not come out. So both mother and baby died,”
Masan told Flores Pos.
He
said he had asked Yosefin to go to hospital but that she had refused.
“I dug their
graves myself while other community members were attending an event,”
he said.
“From the
deepest part of my heart, I deliver my apologies to the victims’ family and all
related parties for the case I am now facing. I’m ready to take responsibility.”
According
to Flores Pos, Masan at the time of the deaths was serving as a priest in
Larantuka diocese and also held the post of associate at the seminary's school.
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