#Reynhard Sinaga

[dakotalawyer]

I'm so tired (despite a three-hour nap) and trying desperately to begin writing my potential research questions for my end of year dissertation. I'm in my final year of law school now and have to write a 10,000 word dissertation in the next 6 months. The deadline for submitting 3 potential research questions is on Wednesday. I'm thinking I'll do something in criminal law, most likely on child protection and the Offences Against the Person Act, or something surrounding Reynhard Sinaga, how he went undetected for so long, the media response, etc...

The little nerd in me is buzzing to have a final research question and start working, it's just getting there that seems to be the struggle at the moment

[gofancyninjaworld]

If people had superpowers and only 1% of human population could possibly rein them in, no doubt there would be people, gay or straight, who would become like PPP, or even worse. At least PPP "only" assaults criminals currently, not that it is a good thing.

While power may make people more brazen, it doesn't create sexual predators. Let me introduce you to Reynhard Sinaga. In 2020, he was sentenced to 88 concurrent life sentences with a minimum of 40 years in prison for raping at least 136 young men. Police think that the true number of victims is north of 200 but those were all the victims they have been able to positively identify to date. No powers, just the motivation and strategy to catch his prey. You should read the linked Wikipedia article. Notice how brazen he was and for how long.

Power didn't create Puri Puri Prisoner. There's a reason he was convicted to multiple full life sentences. Power has meant that Puri Puri has been able to view prison as his personal harem where he can enjoy his cynical calculation that no one cares about this set of victims to try stopping him, and there's nothing that his 'honnies' can do to him. Power means that he's treated as a 'Missing stair' by the other heroes instead of being shunned (although IRL, if you're paying attention, you know that you don't need power to be a 'missing stair' -- just likeable enough).

What I'm saying is that if you're imagining a world that would be depraved if it had people in it whom few people could stop, you don't need to imagine it. We live in one now. If you've not noticed, you've just been lucky not to have to.

[actu24hp]

Who is Reynhard Sinaga and where is he now?

REYNHARD SINGARA was jailed for life in 2020 after he was found to be one of the world’s most prolific rapists. Here, we look at the crimes he committed and where he is now. 1 Reynhard Sinaga was convicted of 159 sexual offencesCredit: PA Who is Reynhard Sinaga?  Reynhard is an Indonesian serial rapist convicted of 159 sexual offences, including 139 rapes of young men. He was a postgraduate…

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[themancorialist]

Brewster Street, Manchester.

[gwydionmisha]

CW: Rape.

[goldpeninsula]

In Indonesia, news of Sinaga's crimes has elicited shock and anger.

The story has gone viral, and on Monday, Sinaga became a trending topic when news of his sentencing broke. His family home has been swamped by the media.

Many Indonesians took to social media to say Sinaga had brought shame on the country in the eyes of the world. Some called for him to face the death penalty (abolished in Britain in 1965).

Others in Indonesia questioned his mental state on social media. But Mr Afero, who met Sinaga during the trial, said he was in a sound state of mind.

"I met him three times in prison and he looked happy, healthy and calm," Mr Afero said. "He understands what he's facing and he showed no remorse because he insists he is not guilty. Therefore, he doesn't feel any burden." The judge dismissed Sinaga's defence that his victims had consented to sex with him, calling it "ludicrous" and "nonsense".

Indonesians have also taken note of the processes in place in the UK to protect rape victims, such as psychological counselling and anonymity in media reports.

"Take note of the way in England the victims are given counselling and trauma healing, while in Indonesia rape victims are always blamed and shamed!" wrote one person on social media.

Another said: "See, here they are not saying the victims were wearing 'too-sexy clothes'."

For Indonesia's LGBT community, Sinaga's case could not come at a worse time.

While homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, in recent years there has been a wave of rising intolerance and hatred directed towards the community. On social media, some people have been accused of posting homophobic slurs in response to news articles about Sinaga's case.

Gay rights activist Hartoyo told the BBC he feared the case "may be used by intolerant groups to push for criminalisation or further attacks on the gay community".

"Even though it's clear that this is a criminal case that has nothing to do with the perpetrator's sexuality. This is about an evil person and I hope the local media makes that clear," he said.

Like many people in Indonesia and Britain, Hartoyo said he was struggling to "understand why [Sinaga] did it", adding he was "deeply shocked and horrified by the crimes".

Indonesian officials say they have no evidence that Sinaga committed sexual assault or rape before moving to the UK.

[dialogue-queered]

Excerpts

The controversial decision comes after the sentencing of Indonesian student Reynhard Sinaga in the UK, who authorities there have dubbed "the most prolific rapist in British legal history" after he was convicted of 136 rapes against men.

Homosexuality is not regulated by law in Indonesia, except in Aceh province where Islamic law bans same-sex relations, but the world's largest Muslim-majority nation has seen a rise in hostility toward the LGBT community.

[nakeddeparture]

RAPE -- the dirtiest crime of them all! Reynhard Sinaga and Mark B.A. Thompson of Barbados are soul brothers. Naked!!

[cumanngingetin]

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[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“He’s just an ordinary person like you or me,” said Stephen Port’s father, Albert, on the threshold of his home in Becontree, east London. It was late November 2016, and his son was on trial for raping and murdering four young men, using the drug GHB as his weapon. As Port senior said these words, on the freezing afternoon that I had knocked on his door, the choc ice he was eating began to drip down his hand.

The ice cream on a wintry day seemed odd. But it was the denial of reality – that he had raised a serial killer who used Grindr and chemsex drugs to overdose young men before covering up his crimes – that rang out, reverberating far beyond that day.

Albert Port’s inability to acknowledge the truth proved symbolic of a much wider, societal denial of what is happening.

Despite the “Grindr killer” headlines, the documentaries, and the creepy mugshot photos, Stephen Port is not a one-off; we just prefer to see him as such.

Much will be written about the BBC’s new drama, Four Lives, which aired this week, about Port, his victims, and the mistakes the Metropolitan Police Service made in its investigations.

These mistakes include the failure to link two of the deaths, despite the bodies being found slumped in the same position in the same graveyard killed by the same drug – and led the coroner to conclude last month that such errors “probably” contributed to three of the deaths.

But whether one considers the drama to be necessary, good TV, or insensitive to the bereaved families, the real danger is its potential to further dissuade victims in similar circumstances from coming forward and to cement the idea that Port is a freakish exception. He isn’t.

He might, so far, have killed the highest number of men within a chemsex setting, but his crimes are simply among the ones that have splashed above sea-level.

Beneath lie crimes of sexual and physical violence, of spiking, stalking, enforced overdoses, livestreaming of abuse, theft, organised crime, and even torture; much of which goes unspoken, is rarely reported, and sometimes even unacknowledged by the victims themselves.

Many within the LGBT community do not want to admit this, or discuss it in public, sometimes from denial but also for fear of worsening prejudice. A much greater proportion of the public aren’t even aware what chemsex is.

Simply put, it’s the combination of certain drugs, particularly GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, a central nervous system depressant) and crystal methamphetamine, with sex, and mostly undertaken between men. But it’s more than sexualised drug use, it’s an entire scene occurring online, on people’s phones, and in real life.

Hook-up apps and websites enable men to meet. Drug dealers use such apps to sell their wares. And the encounters, which can last hours or even days, largely take place in private homes, so that when crimes occur they escape the attention of the authorities, and involve witnesses unable or unwilling to testify.

Most within the chemsex scene, it should be said, have enjoyable experiences. Stigmatisation of this scene helps no one. The problem for the authorities, community and health organisations is how to balance this with the much starker issue: chemsex settings are a predator’s playground, where few speak out.

Heterosexual men and women are also now at risk, as some rapists take Port’s lead, spiking their victims with GHB, and as the drug proliferates in straight bars and parties. Politicians, meanwhile, are only just beginning to act.

Last March the Home Office pledged to reclassify GHB from a class C to a class B drug, in response to another chemsex crime case: Reynhard Sinaga, the most prolific rapist in British legal history, who had used this illicit anaesthetic to render hundreds of mostly heterosexual men unconscious before abusing them. He filmed them, photographed them, and kept the evidence as trophies.

But Sinaga was found guilty more than three years after Port. Years in which a much deeper understanding of these hidden crimes, the reasons for them and the solutions to them, could have been undertaken.

During that time, I began investigating these uncharted waters. It turned into years of research, hundreds of interviews, and the largest survey ever conducted into this area in conjunction with Channel 4. What emerged was almost unbearably dark, both in scale and severity.

When I began interviewing gay and bisexual men about their experiences within chemsex, a strange pattern began to form. They would say, initially, that they had not been raped or sexually assaulted.

However, later, they would add: “Well I have woken up with someone inside me.” They would not label it as rape, even though that is how the law sees it. They would acknowledge the specifics of non-consensual sexual contact – “he groped me, he forced me, he did things to me without my permission” – but they would not call it sexual assault.

If a group (men) are conditioned not to consider that they could be victims of sexual violence, and if their identity (gay or bisexual) has been used as a stick against them, reducing their self-worth such that they don’t consider their boundaries valid, then what hope is there for reporting of crimes?

This isn’t a tiny minority of those involved in chemsex. In 2019, I worked on a documentary for Channel 4’s Dispatchesabout how GHB was being used to rape, drug, and kill.

The team and I conducted a survey of 2,700 gay and bi men who use the drug. More than a quarter, 28 per cent, said they had been raped or sexually assaulted while under its influence – a third of which were younger than 25 – and 82 per cent knew someone else who’d been attacked on it. Nearly a fifth, 18 per cent, said they’d been deliberately put unconscious.

As well as spiking women’s drinks with GHB for the same purposes, heterosexual criminals are also seizing the opportunity provided by chemsex situations to rob, abuse, and murder.

In 2020, Joel Osei, 25, and his girlfriend Diana Cristea, 19, were found guilty of killing a gay man, Adrian Murphy, 43, from south London, by meeting him through Grindr and drugging him with scopolamine, an old anaesthetic nicknamed “devil’s breath”. It was part of a spree of drugging and theft they had committed against gay men whom they had met on the dating app.

The case echoed a previous spree committed in 2018 by another couple, this time a same-sex one. Gerald Matovu – who had been Stephen Port’s drug dealer – and Brandon Dunbar hooked up with a dozen men and drugged them with GHB to rob them. One of their victims, Eric Michels, 54, died during the encounter. Matovu was jailed for life for his murder.

The horror should have come as no surprise to police. In April 2016, Stefano Brizzi, high on crystal meth, murdered PC Gordon Semple, whom he’d invited over to his house for a chemsex hookup, before cooking parts of his body, dissolving other parts in acid, and decapitating him. Brizzi later killed himself in Belmarsh prison.

Dating apps have been accused throughout of providing a platform for dealers, and in 2019 when one London sexual-health adviser, Ignacio Labayen de Inza, spent months setting up profiles to signpost members to support for substance use, Grindr responded by repeatedly blocking his profile – and then ceased engaging with him.

During those months, Labayen de Inza documented dozens of dealers setting up shop on the app and over 2,000 interactions he’d had with guys asking for help.

“This is the biggest tragedy happening in the gay community since the years of Aids,” he told me.

Grindr did not deny there were dealers on there but said the company is “deeply committed to creating a safe online environment for all of our users”, and has “taken steps to address this issue”, which included banning accounts and “providing our users with tools to report suspicious activity”. Grindr also said it works with partners to promote chemsex safety information.

In the past six years, as I’ve interviewed men involved in chemsex, they have repeatedly described situations in which someone fell unconscious on GHB but nobody phoned an ambulance in case the police investigated them for drugs offences.

Many more have described to me refusing to report sexual violence for the same reason. Longer sentences could further dissuade victims.

The Metropolitan Police Service states it would always “prioritise” investigating sexual violence over possible drugs offences of victims but will not rule it out.

Community and health charities are left with the damage. Galop, an LGBT+ anti-abuse charity, and London Friend, an LGBT mental health charity, continue to support victims, while Antidote counsels LGBT addicts. But according to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, much more is needed.

When Home Secretary Priti Patel commissioned the Council to investigate GHB, its recommendations beyond reclassifying GHB included more education, more data, more treatment, and more support.

This, the Home Office said at the time, would be considered in due course. But 10 months on, when asked by i about progress on this matter, a spokesman said it was being discussed and they’ll “respond shortly”.

Beyond Britain, the picture is worse, still. In 2019, a white, wealthy donor to the US Democratic Party, Ed Buck, was arrested after two black gay men were found dead in his West Hollywood home. Last year, he was found guilty on multiple charges including administering the crystal meth that killed them.

But it took officers more than two years from the first death to arrest him, prompting protests from activists and many to question the police’s understanding of chemsex or its victims.

When I first went to LA to investigate, shortly after his arrest, LGBT people of colour repeatedly said the same thing: that there are many other Ed Bucks.

There is some hope, at least, from a pharmacological perspective: researchers at the University of Buffalo last year found the anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac could mitigate the effects of GHB, and studies are underway into new treatments for meth.

However, something far more fundamental is needed to counter the social effects and psychological power over users. Talk to enough people who fall into problematic chemsex use or become victims within it, and three underlying issues surface: isolation, alienation, and discrimination.

Until the legal changes for LGBT people are met with deeper, social embrace of sexual and gender minorities, many more will continue to be pulled under, as predators strike. Some of whom will never return.

[a-study-in-crime]

Serial Rapist Reynhard Sinaga

The crimes

Reynhard Sinaga, born in 1983, moved from his home country Indonesia to England in 2007. He studied at Manchester University and completed several degrees. Reynhard seemed to be an ambitious and quite successful young man, but he had a dark secret; he spent his free time luring men to his apartment where he drugged and violently raped them.

It is not known when the rapes started, but it is believed that they began in 2005. Reynhard used the same method every time; he stood outside bars and waited for someone willing to accompany him home. When his victim had entered his apartment, Reynhard gave him a drink laced with the drug GHB, a known date-rape drug. When the victim had passed out, Reynhard raped them and sometimes videotaped the assault. The victim had no recollection of the event when they woke up, which resulted in them never reporting the rape to the police. Reynhard also often stole his victims' personal belongings, such as cellphones and ID cards.

Reynhard was finally caught in 2017 when his final victim woke up while being raped. The man managed to escape from Reynhard's apartment and notified the police. However, the police were not convinced of the victim's story; they believed that the victim had assaulted Reynhard and then falsely accused him of rape to try and justify the assault. However, the police soon found out the truth. Hundreds upon hundreds of videos documenting the rapes were found in Reynhard's phone, and messages sent on WhatsApp seemed to fill in the gaps. It seemed as if Reynhard was interested in ''turning'' straight men gay. In one of his texts, Reynhard wrote the following: ''SuperRey saves straight boys from their monstrous girlfriend''.

Since Reynhard had kept many of his victims' personal belongings, the police managed to track them down and inform them about what had happened to them. Some of Reynhard's victims had some memories from when they were raped, butt most of them had no recollection at all. Sadly, some of Reynhard's victims were never identified.

Trial and aftermath

Reynhard pleaded not guilty to all charges but was found guilty of rape, sexual assault, attempted rape, and assault by penetration. Reynhard raped at least 206 different men.

Reynhard was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving at least 40 years.

[indastory]

AYAH ADA, AYAH TIADA @yulindaashari . Setelah viralnya kasus Reynhard Sinaga, beberapa praktisi psikologi mulai mengaitkannya kembali dengan ketiadaan peran ayah dalam pengasuhan atau biasa disebut fatherless. Meski tentu tak sepenuhnya benar, tapi fatherless ini memang perlu menjadi concern kita karena berdampak cukup banyak pada psikologis anak di kemudian hari. . Dulu saat saya mengobrol dengan anak-anak di bawah umur yang melakukan tindak kriminal (pembegalan, pemerkosaan, bahkan pembunuhan) di Panti Sosial Anak Berhadapan Hukum, hampir semuanya mengaku tidak dekat dengan ayahnya. Entah itu karena ayahnya telah meninggal, ayahnya bersikap kasar, atau jarang sekali mengobrol dengan ayah di rumah. . Sejak bertahun lalu, fatherless memang menjadi salah satu masalah yang cukup besar di negara ini, dengan atau tanpa disadari. Bahkan, Indonesia digadang-gadang sebagai salah satu fatherless country di dunia. Hal ini banyak terjadi karena anggapan yang sudah cukup mengakar di negara kita, bahwa tugas ayah hanyalah bekerja dan mencari nafkah, sedangkan tugas pengasuhan sepenuhnya dilakukan ibu. Akhirnya, banyak anak menjadi "yatim" sebelum waktunya, ayahnya ada, tapi seolah tak ada dan tak berperan banyak dalam pengasuhan. . Padahal kelak, ayahlah yang akan pertama kali dimintai pertanggungjawabannya oleh Allah terkait pengasuhan anak. Padahal, percakapan ayah dan anak di dalam Al-Qur'anpun jauh lebih banyak disebutkan dibanding percakapan ibu dan anak. . Jika ayah masih bingung harus melakukan apa, beberapa hal sederhana ini bisa dilakukan. Saat anak masih bayi, terlibatlah dalam hal memandikan bayi, mengganti popok, menyuapi, menggendong dan membantu menenangkan saat menangis, mengajak bermain, bercanda, mengobrol, atau sekadar membaca Al-Qur'an di depan bayi. Saat anak sudah cukup besar, milikilah waktu khusus setiap harinya untuk mengobrol dengan anak-anak, atau bisa jadwalkan setidaknya satu kali sehari untuk makan bersama keluarga, lalu ciptakan suasana yang hidup dan hangat bersama istri dan anak-anak. . Tentu para ayah bisa berteladan pada sebaik-baik teladan, Rasulullah shalallahu alaihi wasallam. Beliau yang memiliki agenda dakwah luar biasa padat bahkan harus berperang, adalah sosok yang sangat dekat dan dicintai oleh anak-anak serta cucunya. Lalu jika ada ayah yang mengatakan bahwa ia sangat sibuk bekerja untuk menafkahi anak istri, tapi tidak memiliki waktu untuk bersama mereka, maka ada hal keliru yang harus diluruskan kembali. . Ayah, pulanglah. Anak-anak dan istrimu bukan hanya sekadar butuh harta, mereka juga butuh dirimu untuk bercengkrama dan bercanda ria. Sungguh kehidupan yang sederhana namun hangat penuh canda, jauh lebih berharga bagi jiwa, dibanding memaksakan untuk bermewah-mewah namun jadi menghilangkan peranmu di rumah..