PHOTO: Suspect Poquee when he was declared wanted by officers
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
Several Correction Officers at the Zwedru National Correction Palace in Liberia’s southeastern Grand Gedeh County are currently being probed for deliberately releasing a 21-year-old man, Bryant Poquee, who allegedly sodomized a boy, age 6.
The act occurred in a gold mining town on August 15, 2020, but the suspect was arrested, charged and forwarded to court on August 21, 2020.
The correction officers allegedly received huge amount of money through mobilemoney in the correction palace to release Defendant Poquee on Thursday night September 3, 2020.
On that day, it was only Bryant Poquee alone who was released from the Correction Palace, after his parents allegedly bribed the correction officers, something that prompted the Correction Supervisor in area to declare defendant Poquee wanted.
Suspect Bryant Poquee
Defendant Poquee has since been re-arrested at the Zwedru gate one, which is at the entrance to the city early last Friday morning, September 4, 2020.
According to the officers at the Zwedru gate one, they informed by Defendant that he did not escaped as being pronounced by the Correction Supervisor, but he was rather released by some correction officers.
Sodomy suspect Poquee alleged that his parents some money on one of the officers’ mobile phone number with the agreement to have him released, and that a motorbike was also sent to have him transported to Nimba County, where he hails from.
Meanwhile, defendant Poquee is currently back behind bars at the correction palace, assisting team of security personnel with the investigation as to who were those correction officers that actually released him.
Report said this is not the first time for correction officers to release a defendants or an inmates who had committed terrible crimes under the guise of jail break, but rather they are released due to bribery.
On August 15, 2020, defendant Poquee allegedly sodomized the six-year-old boy from the largest gold mine in Grand Gedeh County.
The boy was called by defendant Poquee to enter his room for the purpose of watching movies on his phone.
When the child entered his room, he locked the door and pushed the child on his mattress, covered his mouth with cloth, undressed and later sexually abused him.
After defendant Poquee finished carrying out his evil against the boy, he left the room crying and explained what happened.
After explaining his ordeal to his mother, he was quickly to taken to the Martha Tubman Memorial hospital for medical examination, which showed that the boy was actually penetrated in his anus.
Currently, the six-year-old survivor is responding to treatment, with the help of a local NGO, Rescue for Abandoned and Children in Hardship.
But was earlier suffering from bleeding and he is in being legally protected by the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) Grand Gedeh County coordination office.