An Indonesian man, Ariel Lhudfiyan Muarifin, is sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment and three strokes of the cane for molesting a 17-year-old girl on a Scoot flight travelling to Singapore. The incident occurs while the victim is asleep during the April 15 flight from Okinawa to Singapore. According to court accounts reported by outlets, the man molests the teenager multiple times and continues even after the victim tries to move away.
Both reports state that Muarifin, 20, pleads guilty to one charge of molestation and receives the punishment on June 3. The reporting also indicates that he works as a construction worker in Okinawa and was travelling to Singapore as a transit point, intending to return to Indonesia via Singapore.
The sources focus on the same core timeline: the April 15 flight, the molestation of the sleeping victim, the guilty plea, and the June 3 sentencing to jail and corporal punishment.
