GIRL 3 ENCOUNTERED SEXUAL PENETRATION

By: Sahr J. Bangah

Three years old minor is said to have encountered sexual penetration in the hands of a twenty-five years old man Mohamed Bangura, a farmer by profession at Rosint village in the Bombali Shairay, Bombali District.

According to an eye witness in court, She informed the jam-pack court presided over by Justice Unisa Kamara that the accused Mohamed Bangura is her neighbor who reside at Rosint village and recalled on the 19^th November 2018, she left both the three years old minor playing in an open place with her son only to return home without seen her and immediately she went in search of her.

She disclosed that during the searched for the minor, she saw the accused door permanently closed which prompted her to become curious and straightly went and knocked until the accused open, after a while she saw the minor coming from the room holding his pants by her knees and later she saw a slippery whitish substance on the victim under wear which urged her to raised alarmed.

She emphasis that during the process another neighbor came in and they went straightly to the accused room, they met the accused Mohamed Bangura trying to dress up, when one of the neighbor grabbed of his penis. Later the saw a whitish substance coming from his penis mouth.

He concluded that the accused wear a trousers without any under wear during his arrest and that his zipped was widely open when the other neighbor get hold on it.

In his defense in court, the accused denied the allegation but admitted that he went to dress up in his room after his farming exercised and to his dismayed he saw the minor inside his room but he did not sexual fidgeted her.

Medical reports tendered in court explained that the three years old minor had bruises on the virginal wall and she has lost of her virginity.  On a legal ground, State Counsel North, Lawyer Aruna Jalloh raised a submission that the accused Mohamed Bangura stand trial on two courts ranging from Sexual Penetration and Sexual Touching contrary to law which are grave concern to the state and therefore rejected for any attempt to grant him bail.

Justice Unisa Kamara stated that his court will not even negotiate the aspect of bail and therefore adjourned the matter to the next court session where he will deliver his verdict.