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4 YEARS MINOR STRANGLED TO DEATH AFTER SEXUALLY ABUSED


By: Alusine Rehme Wilson - (AR-Wilson)
Police medical reports stated that the four years old minor suffered manual strangulation, physical and sexual abused, spinal cord injury, fractured upper limbs, swollen virginal and vulva with bruising and severe anemia before she met her untimely death.

During police investigation, it was disclosed that on the 13th June 2019 at Mabureh village in the Bombali Sebore Chiefdom, Bombali District that the four years old minor mother Marie Sankoh left decease in the safe hands of her biological sister Hawa Sankoh and later went on farming exercised only to come home late in the evening without seen the minor now decease.

It was also revealed that the decease mother immediately alerted the village chief Pa Brima Best Conteh about the missing of her biological daughter.

According to Pa Alpha Sesay, he revealed that upon this information Pa Brima Best Conteh summoned community members to go in searched of the missing child which they did and on the following day during the search,  he saw the decease cousin, a sixteen years old minor in a thick bush closed to Mabureh village trying to buried the decease in a charcoal pit while the decease hands were out when he summarized at the scene and to his dismayed he shouted “ I have seen you and don’t go anywhere”  which prompted other youth that where in the bush to rush to the scene of crime and help him arrested the sixteen years old suspected and later handed him over to the police including the remains of the minor.

At the Makeni police station, the sixteen years old minor now suspect denied the allegation but confirmed that there have been existing malice between him and the decease mother on allegation she made that he was responsible for the death of their grandfather Pa. Foday Sankoh.

It was further revealed by community members that suspect refused to go in searched of his cousin now the decease when she was missing instead he went to play a football leaving the entire community in a state of dilemma only to be seen the following day in a thick bush trying to buried the four years old minor now decease when he ran out of luck.

The remains of the decease has being handed over to family members for burial while the sixteen years old minor now suspect has being charged to court for the offence of murder.

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