PHOTO: L-R Donated items, Teenage rape survivor sitting with her baby and Reporter Never Garmah Lomo holding the baby
TIENNE, CAPE MT., Liberia- It’s not all the time that the Reporter would cover other people/institutions presentation of relief items, but sometimes the table is turned and Thursday, May 27, 2021 was one of such days.
As a part of her 32nd birth anniversary, www.newspublictrust.com News Public Trust Chief Reporter, Never Garmah Lomo has identified with a 14-year-old rape survivor in Pejuhum. She also show similar gesture towards another in Tienne Grand Cape Mount County, Western Liberia.
The 14-Year-old girl, who was raped and impregnated by a school teacher, gives birth to a boy child, but the teenage victim is crying for urgent Help.
The teenage rape survivor in Grand Cape Mount County, Western Liberia is making a desperate appeal to the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection, UN Women and other partners to save her and newly born baby.
This 14-year-old child was allegedly raped and impregnated by a classroom teacher of the Pejuhum public school identified as Sense Kaiwu.
She gave birth to a male child on the 14 July 2020 at the Diah Clinic in Tewor District.
Teenage rape survivor’s condition
Currently the baby and his mother are in desperate need of clothing, food, mattress, medication and other baby items.
Donating the items on Thursday, Journalist Lomo said her donation came about when she wrote a touching story about the survivor, Liberia’s Vice President promptly responded to the survivor cry and promised to take care of she and her baby and this was also followed by the Chief Executive Officer of Rescue for Abandoned and Children in Hardship (REACH) headed by Mrs. Ne-Suah B. Livingstone.
In this light it was important for her to also contribute to the survivor wellbeing since she is the brain behind the story.
During her donation ceremony on May 27, 2021, Journalist Lomo told the survivor to see her situation as a new journey to her life and move forward because there is light on the tunnel ahead.
The Liberian female journalist told the teenage rape survivor that her donation is meant to add to the effort of others who have been in forth front for her and the baby.
However, the female reporter encouraged survivors to “take their education serious and their abused situation shouldn’t hold them down or serve as an obstacle because when a woman or girl is educated, you make wise decision and serve your entire country in various capacities.”
For her part, the 14-year-old rape survivor expressed gratitude to this Reporter for her immensely contribution towards her through her publication, which prompted the Vice President of Liberia coming in contact with her.
Also speaking, the caretaker of the survivor in a joyful mood rained a blessings over this female reporter and asked to continue to bless her in everything that she do in her life.
Items donated were three bags of 25Kg rice, three packs of pempus (baby daipers), dozen of tissue, washing and bathing soaps, baby powder bag among others.
Meanwhile, Thursday’s donation by this Reporter was done through the immense contribution of Atty. Maxwell Grigsby, Chairman of the Small Arms Commission of Liberia; Atty. Alex T. Johnson of Civil Litigation at the Ministry of Justice; Judge George W. Smith of the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in River Gee County; and Judge Joe S. Barkon of the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Grand Bassa County.
Background
During a visit at Camp #3 in Grand Cape Mount County, the young baby mother was seen eating gari, locally called farina due to the lack of food.
Both the rape survivor and the new born male child are living in a cracked mud house that is serving as death trap for them. Besides, the mud hut is leaking on her baby and herself.
They are also sleeping on bug-infested Bamboo old bed with bub biting them without mattress on it. The teenage rape victim’s both parents died during the Ebola crisis in neighbouring Sierra Leone, something that prompted her to move to her uncle in Grand Cape Mount County.
The little girl was 13-year-old when she was impregnated by 25-year-old classroom teacher, Sense Kaiwu in October of 2019, who is said to be on the run.
However, functionaries of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the social welfare aspect are yet to be felt by sexual and Domestic Violence victims.