By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
Survivor with face covered when she was rescued
Despite the recent Presidential declaration of the heinous crime of rape as a National Emergency, there still rising tide of this menace in Liberia.
In one of such incidents, a 13-year-old girl has become one of the latest victims as a result of an alleged gang rape in one of Monrovia’s eastern suburbs.
The cruel incident reportedly occurred on Wednesday night (September 16, 2020), when the girl was allegedly raped by unknown men on a field.
In an telephone interview, the survivor’s father narrated that he was called by the Community Chairman of the Fendall area on Wednesday night about 1Am GMT, that his daughter was raped.
Given the time he was called, he managed to rush there with the help of a commercial bike commonly called, “pemh-pemh”.
After she was raped by those evil men, she was been dumped by the roadside in the area, the girl’s father explained.
The father of the survivor told the community leaders that his daughter had come from selling, got in a car and told the driver where she was stopping. But he said the driver along with others deliberately carried on a football field in Fendall and sexually abused her.
Right after that brief explanation by the survivor to the Community, she was able to give her father’s number but she subsequently fainted due to level of abuse she suffered, which caused her to bleed seriously.
When the survivor went knocking at the door of the Community Chairman at about 1Am, the community people became afraid, thinking that it was a setup, because many people are said to have been victimized in the past.
But he the chairman managed to peek through his window and saw that the teenage girl was bleeding, something that made him to immediately come out of the house to rescue her from the grave trauma.
In another development, the 13-year-old rape survivor’s father also revealed that his daughter normally leaves the home for sometimes for reasons best known to herself and he had always gone in search of her.
The girl’s father is deeply worried as to whether his daughter will ever be able to bear children in the future.