PHOTO: Joe M. Winnie now charged with multiple crimes
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
It has been disclosed that a 22-year-old woman is in critical condition at the F.J. Grant hospital in the southeastern city of Greenville, Sinoe County, after her private part was damaged by her boyfriend who poured super glue in it.
The man, Joe M. Winnie, age 30 has admitted committing the act. He is also said to have used caustic in his act, after his girlfriend refused him sex because she was tired after a hard day’s work.
He committed the act while his girlfriend was asleep. “My boyfriend, Joe full my mouth oh, I told him I was tire and he still and always forcing me,” the victim told journalists after the incident.
Police have now charged the man with multiple crimes. The incident happened recently in Money Camp in Jladae Statutory District #2. And the charges range from Rape, Criminal attempt to commit murder, terroristic threat and Aggravated Assault.
According to the Gender Coordinator in Sinoe County, Julie Teteh the victim’s condition is going from bad to worse due to lack of drugs.
And the 22-year-old woman is also said to be appealing for help, as she lacks food and other necessities.
Mrs. Teteh added that Nurses usually do the prescriptions and give them to the victim to buy the drugs outside the hospital before being treated, something that is seriously challenging for the victim due to lack of money.
She noted that on Friday, October 15, 2021, she was the one who had to purchase drugs for the victim from her own pocket.
The Sinoe County Gender Coordinator added that the victim needs to be transferred to Monrovia, due lack of drugs at the F.J. Grant Hospital in Greenville.
Mrs. Teteh narrated that she reported the matter to her central office– the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in Monrovia.
In a mobile phone interview with www.newspublictrust.com, the Sinoe County Gender Coordinator said that the defendant first used caustic in the his girlfriend’s private part with rubber pump.
She said because the super glue sealed the victim’s private, the caustic could not flow down thankfully.
The Police in the County on Friday, October 15, 2021 charged and sent to court a 30-year-old Joe M. Winnie.
He’s now being held in the Sinoe County Central Prison after admitting to the crimes.
Women groups condemn act
But several women groups in the County have condemned the wicked act meted out out by defendant Winnie and they have promised to follow this case to its logical conclusion.
Some of the groups are the National Institute for Public Opinion (NiPO), Southeastern women Development Association (SoWODA) and Sinoe women.
The women groups are also demanding that the case be transferred from Sinoe County to another county as it was done with other similar cases in the past.