Magistrate Albert Moody of the Freetown Magistrate Court No.2 at the Main Law Court Building in Freetown has on yesterday July 4th 2017 remanded in custody at the Pademba Male Correctional Center in Freetown one Mohamed Kamara for the alleged sexual penetration of one Junior Secondary School pupil (name withheld).
The alleged victim (name withheld) age 13 year, testified in court that she knows the accused person. She added that the accused person used to help her mother with domestic work. She went on to say that on a date unknown between September 2016 and May 2017, her mother went to town to transact her business and she left the accused and her at home. The alleged victim went further to say that the accused person proposed love to her and she accepted.
She added that the accused person took her into her father’s room, closed the door and asked her to remove her pant and she did. She went on to say that the accused person laid her on the bed of her parents and had sex with her. The alleged victim (name withheld) revealed that since it was her first time she felt severe pain and when the accused person got up, she saw white water coming out of her private part.
The alleged victim (name withheld) went on to say that they did it many time which she can really the exact number of time the accused person penetrated his penis into her private part. She added that as the accused person continues to seduce her and eventually had sex with her, one Mariama who stays closer to their parent’s room came to notice that the accused person and her always locked themselves inside the room and she brought that to the notice of her mother and suggested that her mother check her up because she suspected that the accused person has been sexually penetrating her.
She added that her mother took her to one mammy Yeali who checked her and confirmed that someone has been sexually penetrated into her private part. She went on to say that her mother took her to the New England Ville Police Station and reported the matter. She added that they were issued with a police medical request form for treatment and examination at the Rainbow Centre at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital at Fourah Bay Road in Freetown.
She continues to say that after the treatment and examination, they returned the sealed envelope of the doctor’s report at the police station and handed it to police.
The accused person was unrepresented, Magistrate Albert Moody adjourned the matter to Tuesday July 11th for continuation and he ordered that the accused person be incarcerated at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Center in Freetown.
The accused person was charged with one count charge of sexual penetration of a child contrary to section 19 of the sexual offenses Act No.12 of 2012. According to the particulars of offense, the accused person, Mohamed Kamara on a diverse date between September 16th and 1st May 2017 in Freetown, in the Freetown Judicial District in the Western Area of the Republic of Sierra Leone sexually penetrated a thirteen year old child (name withheld).
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