PHOTO: Convict David Jallah being escorted to prison after court sentenced him.
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
KAKATA, Liberia- The 13th Judicial Circuit Court in here in Margibi County presided by its assigned Circuit Court Judge Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay has sentenced a 30-year-old man impregnating
David Jallah was slapped with the prison sentence by the court recently, for for raping and impregnating his biological sister’s14-year-old daughter and thereafter aborting the pregnancy.
The defendant was sentenced separately for the two crimes.
Convict Jallah was first sentenced to eight years imprisonment for Statutory Rape and also sentenced to four years for abortion.
When the case was called on November 3, 2021, the defendant pleaded guilty to the commission of the crimes.
According to his indictment, on Friday the 11th of February A.D. 2021, at about 8am, in the World bank community, Kakata, Margibi County, the within defendant now convict, David Jallah did purposely, knowingly, and with the intent to commit Statutory Rape against the Republic of Liberia constantly had sexual intercourse with the victim impregnated her and terminated the pregnancy.
The victim said her uncle, David Jallah, who brought her in Kakata to live with him to go to school, used that to sexually abuse her.
She also alleged that during her more than two years stay in Kakata, her uncle had not sent her to school. But he has been in the constant habit of having sexual intercourse with her until she got pregnant.
The teenage victim also narrated that defendant Jallah gave her three tablets, two of which she swallowed. And that after she took the tablets, she suffered abortion and was referred at the C.H. Ronnie Hospital in Kakata for medical examination, treatment and repowers.
The indictment further says:
“That according to one of the witnesses, she explained that on February 11th,2021, about 8am, she saw her sister crying that her stomach was hurting, she told her uncle David Jallah according to the witness, she was among group of women went there and noticed that the victim suffered abortion before carrying her at the police.”
“That defendant David Jallah in his statement made to the police admitted to the allegation filed against him that he has been having sexual intercourse with the victim, in which so got pregnant.”
David Jallah has also admitted purchasing three tablets on a Friday and giving them to the victim, two of which she swallowed, triggering the abortion of the her pregnancy.