PHOTO: Victim’s feet dripping with blood from the alleged crime
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
A boy identified as David Kollie is now in jail, after being arrested, investigated and sent to court by Police in the central Liberian city of Gbarnga, Bong County for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl.
According to police charge sheet from the County, on July 21, 2020, relatives of the survivor reported to women and children protection section of the Liberia National Police that their daughter was sexually abused by defendant David Kollie, age 15.
The survivor explaining her ordeal to the police, saying that on July 21, 2020, while, she was cooking, she saw Kollie coming from his house and called her for his phone. But according to her, she told him that she doesn’t want his cell phone and continued doing her work.
But defendant Kollie forcibly came and used his shirt to her mouth and forced her into her mother’s unfinished kitchen. He put a cloth on the ground and put her on it, forcibly taking her clothes off and began having sexual intercourse with her, thus causing her to bleed profusely.
After defendant Kollie had his sexual desire, he told her not to tell anyone about his evil behavior meted against her and promised to give her L$150 for her July 26 to buy anything of her choice.
Contrary to the survivor’s statement, defendant Kollie told police investigators that on July 21, 2020, he went to the hand pump in Melekie town to get bathing water for his mother, when the survivor told him that they should “go do rude thing”. And he told the survivor to go with him in front of the house. But he claimed that the survivor refused and took him to her mother’s unfinished kitchen had sex.
He further stated that after committing the act, people were looking for him, something that forced him to run away and went to Firestone where he was arrested and taken back to Bong County.
Both the defendant and survivor are residents of the Melekie town community. But the matter was reported on the 24 of July 2020.
Defendant Kollie was in violation of section 14.70 of the revised rape law of Liberia which states
A person who has sexual intercourse with another person (male or female) has committed rape if:
(a)(I) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus, mouth or any other opening of another person (male or female) with his penis, without the victim’s consent.
The victim is less than eighteen years old provided the actor is eighteen years of age or older.