![]() ![]() The investigating and arresting officers are now under scrutiny for corruption. One student claimed that he had been raped with a “magic stone” conjured out of thin air the parents of the boys asserted that repeated assaults had happened in an entirely glass-walled office in the middle of the school and the mother of one of the boys sued the school for $125 million (USD). ![]() (Full disclosure: Bantleman spent a decade at my former school in Calgary, Canada, and was my middle-school gym teacher.) Supporters worldwide adopted the #FreeNeilandFerdi hashtag, and, at the time of this writing, the “Free Neil and Ferdi” Facebook group run by Bantleman’s brother has nearly 6,600 members.įrom the start, the accusations were, to put it mildly, problematic. ![]() Indonesian teaching assistant Ferdinand Tjiong and Canadian administrator Neil Bantleman were held for months before their trial, sentenced to 10 years of jail time in April of this year, and released from prison when their verdict was overturned in August. In July 2014, two staff members at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School (then Jakarta International School) were arrested under charges of sexually abusing three kindergarten boys. A Western educator at a respected international school was denied his human rights and jailed on obviously mendacious charges after a clearly corrupt investigation and an unfair trial presided over by a hostile judge. ![]()
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