VOC Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen's anger could not be contained. His adopted daughter, Sara Specx, was caught in the act with Pieter Cortenhoeff, a sixteen-year-old boy, at his residence in 1629. Twelve-year-old Sara was the daughter of Jacques Specx, a member of the Raad van Indie or the Council of the Indies, and a Japanese woman, while Pieter was the son of senior merchant Jacob Cortenhoeff and a Burmese woman.

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