In 2015, the death penalty was handed down to a minor girl named Dita Desmala Sari at 17 years and 8 months. In fact, based on Indonesian law, which is regulated by Law No. 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Criminal Justice System ("Children's Law"), a child who at the time of the crime did not reach the age of 18 years cannot be subject to the death penalty. In December 2012 Dita married Muhammad Delfi (18 years old). For the sake of the immune science inherited by her father, Delfi forced Dita to murder several male victims to be cut and taken from their genitals. When Dita refused Delfi's orders, she was threatened with murder, so she was forced to commit murder.
Dita and Delfi were arrested by the police because they were reported by one of the victim's parents named Rendi Hidayat. Both are undergoing legal proceedings with separate files. During the trial, Dita was never accompanied by legal counsel. He knew that he was provided with a lawyer, but he didn't know who his legal counsel was. Dita has never spoken or been interviewed by her legal counsel. When the trial took place, the legal counsel only listened to the course of the trial without providing a defense. Dita was not informed by her legal counsel of her right to defend herself. Dita's trial continued without any defense, without any counterarguments filed by legal counsel, without examining witnesses who could mitigate Dita's case, and without the reading of the pleidoi or written defense by legal counsel
Dita was charged and prosecuted with a life sentence, but the panel of judges then sentenced Dita to the death penalty both in the first stage and appeal stage. Then after submitting a case review, the sentence has been commuted into 10 years of imprisonment and in late 2024 she has been released.