By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
Reports from Fish Town, River Gee County, southeastern Liberia say Police have arrested, investigated, charged and sent to court a 47-year-old man identified as Partee Bolley for allegedly raping a girl, 13.
According to the police charge sheet, the teenage survivor’s mother lodged the the Teacher’s, after he went in the area to tutor her four girls children, as rape has taken a nosedive in Liberia in recent times..
On September 14, 2020, the survivor told police investigators that during the evening hours, defendant Bolley put movies on his big phone for them watch and the rest of the children were all watching the movie along with their sister. But the three children later went to sleep, leaving the 13-year- old and the defendant watching the movie.
While, watching the movie, defendant Bolley allegedly decided to finger the survivor, penetrating her private part, thus putting the child in severe pain. As a result of the pain she was going through, the girl attempted to escape from the room.
But while trying to escape, the Defendant held her back with her clothes and gave her L$500 not to disclose what he had done to her.
But the teenager informed her mother about what the classroom Teacher had done, prompting her mother to report the matter to the community leaders. They subsequently forwarded the matter to the police, who arrested and took him to the station for investigation.
Meanwhile, defendant Bolley has been charged with Statutory rape and forwarded to court, after a medical report revealed that the survivor was indeed tempered with.