Saclepea, Nimba County – The Women and Children Division of the Liberia National Police (LNP) in Saclepea, Nimba County, has charged a 71-year-old man with rape and murder.
Report by Franklin Doloquee, FPA Nimba County Contributor
Suspect Joshua Kerwon, a resident of Bweh Town in District #7, was arrested along with two suspects, who later linked him with the act.
The two suspects allegedly narrated that they saw the 71-year-old covered with dirt as if he had come from digging a grave.
According to our Nimba County Contributor, the 71-year-old Bweh town resident, was seeing coming from the waterside were the 11-year-old teenager was allegedly raped to death.
The deceased was a student of the Jonny Vokar High School in Saclepea City. She had left to stay the week-end in her hometown.
According to reports, she had gone to the waterside to wash her clothes when she was allegedly raped, killed and buried on the bank of the creek by the Kerwon.
Sources told our Nimba County Contributor that suspect Joshua Kerwon’s latest action brings to three attempts at raping kids in the town but the townspeople have continued to resolve every attempt in-home. However, the death of the 11-year-old finally exposed him.
The 71-year-old’s alleged action shows that the crime is increasing in the county.
Few months ago, 32-year-old Saye Doe, a resident of Gbahn Town, on the Ganta-Saclepea highway in District #8, was arrested and charged with murder after he raped a three-month-old baby to death.
According to our Contributor, Doe was sent to prison in Sanniquellie but he is yet to be seen in the prison facility.
In another incident, 28-year-old Amos Dolo, a Bong County resident, who had a four-month-old baby and its mother in Flumpa Town, District #8, Nimba County also did similar thing. One night, he raped the baby to death after he had attempted to have sex with the child’s mother and she refused. It is said that when the child’s mother had fallen asleep overnight, he took the baby from beside her and raped her in an adjacent room.
He was arrested, charged and sent to the Sanniquellie Central Prison but was later set free without appealing in court.
Our Contributor said groups of young people under the banner Concerned Nimbaians, have vowed to stage a peaceful march aimed at calling the attention of central government to the increase in violence against women in the county.
Speaking to the FrontPageAfrica, the head for Gender and Development, Madam Yar Belleh Suah, said women in the county have been affected with many forms of violence against them. According to Suah, from 2018 to present, domestic violence against women in Nimba has resulted to three women’s death at the hands of their male partners while several young girls and kids have allegedly been raped.