A 15-year-old girl, raped by her older brother, jailed for six months for abortion

A 15-year-old Indonesian was jailed for six months for aborting her fetus, AFP reported Saturday. She became pregnant after her older brother raped her.

The girl and her 17-year-old brother were both sentenced by a district court in Sumatra on Thursday. The brother was sentenced to two years in prison for badually badaulting a minor. He had raped her eight times since September 2017.

Indonesian law prohibits abortion unless a woman's life is in danger or under certain circumstances if she is raped. An abortion must be performed by a registered professional within six weeks of pregnancy and the woman must receive counseling. The girl had her abortion about six months after her pregnancy.

"The girl was charged under the Child Protection Law for having aborted," AFP spokesman Listyo Arif Budiman told AFP.

Prosecutors, who first demanded a one-year prison sentence for the girl and seven years for her brother, said they could appeal the decision , reported Sky News.

Police arrested siblings in June after the discovery of a male fetus in a palm oil plantation near the village of Pulau in Jambi province. The girl's mother, who helped her to get an abortion, faces separate charges.