An Indonesian judge ordered an Islamic boarding school official to death for raping 12 female pupils and impregnating eight of them during a five-year period, according to a press release issued on the court’s website Tuesday.

Herry Wirawan, the head of the Tahfidz Madani boarding school in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung, was ordered by the Bandung High Court to pay $23,000 in compensation to the victims, and his assets were taken for the benefit of the victims and newborns.

As a result of the rapes, eight of the females gave birth to nine children. According to the statement, the court issued the verdict because the rapes caused the victims’ newborns to endure “a lack of care and love from their parents.”

Wirawan, 36, is also accused of “causing anguish and suffering for the victims and their parents” and “using religious symbols… that might taint the image of Islam” in order to conduct the crimes. The court allowed an appeal by government prosecutors who had sought the death penalty for Wirawan from the start.

On February, the lower Bandung District Judge ordered him to life imprisonment for raping the girls, the youngest of whom was 13 at the time, between 2016 and 2021. The newborns will be cared for by the West Java government until the young moms are emotionally and psychologically prepared to care for their children on their own, according to the court panel.