Suwarti, an Indonesian woman who allegedly posed as a man in order to get married, was arrested on Thursday after the shocked wife, Heniyati, discovered the deception, several months after the pair tied the knot in a ceremony on Java island, DailyMail reports.
Heniyati, 25, became suspicious when her ‘husband’ refused to consummate the marriage. “She falsified all the documents for the marriage… My family and I were deceived. We feel so embarrassed,” Heniyati said. When they met, Suwarti, 40, gave herself the male name, Muhamad Efendi Saputra, and said she was a police officer.
Police said they were still investigating the reason for Suwarti’s deception. All Suwarti would say is that she had been disappointed by a previous marriage, from which she had a 17-year-old child.
After a whirlwind romance lasting a couple of months, the pair married late last year in their home district of Boyolali, with Suwarti reportedly even hiring people to pretend to be her male alter ego’s relatives at their wedding.
After several months of married life, Heniyati finally discovered an identity card in Suwarti’s wallet showing who she really was, said Kariri. Suwarti could face up to 7 years in prison for falsifying her identity…. Heniyati says she regrets nt testing it b4 buying it….
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