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AT POLICE ACADEMY… POLICE OFFICER IMPREGNATE MINOR



By: Sahr J. Bangah
A police constable PC 14704 Abu Bakarr Koroma attached at the Sierra Leone Police Academy at Makump Bana Village in the Bombali Sebore Chiefdom, Bombali District was yesterday arraigned in court before the presiding Magistrate Peter Gogra for the offence of Sexual Penetration of a child contrary to section 19 of the Sexual Offences Act No 12 of 2012 including Sexual Touching and Meeting of a Child for sexual purposed.

According to the minor testimony at the Family Support Unit in Makeni, she disclosed that she is fifteen (15) years of age and she stayed with her grandmother. She recalled in sometimes in December 2018, the accused met her and proposed a love relationship with her but at the initiate stage she refused on the ground that she is a school pupil and wanted to be one of the few female educationist in the country.

She revealed that the accused Abu Bakarr Koroma was able to convince her on the ground that he will automatically take care of her education, she noted, indeed the accused started helping her which prompted her without any hesitation to accept his love request.

She continued that during their love relationship, the accused have sexual intercourse with her, times without number and that the accused was sending her friend Ramatu and Mayieteh always to called her when he wanted to share love with her not until when her grandmother including family members suspected her health condition that was deteriorating which prompted them to take her to Makump Community Hospital only to discovered that she was pregnant.

The accused PC 14704 was denied bail by Magistrate Gogra on the ground that the allegation against him is felonious by law and later send to the Makeni correctional center where he will remain until the next adjournment.

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