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Justice sought for 15-Year-Old Raped by Stepfather by Senator

Justice and Rights of girls' children in Liberia

By Glenn P. WashingtonPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
A 15-year-old girl rape in Liberia

Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence (Liberty Party, Grand Bassa) has encouraged the Service of Equity, the Female Legal counselors Relationship of Liberia, Service of Orientation, Kid and Social Security and all foundations keen on the privileges of youngsters to treat the assault and impregnation of a 15-year-old young lady in Lofa District with the highest level of desperation in sending a strong message to would-be attackers and victimizers of kids' freedoms.

In a proclamation Tuesday, the Congressperson said she was crushed subsequent to watching the video that has turned into a web sensation portraying the little kid making sense of how she was assaulted by her stepfather.

Mother 'Advised me to lock the entry way.'

Kumba (not her genuine name) was recorded sitting on a wooden seat and breastfeeding her child young lady, a result of an intense assault purportedly dedicated by her stepfather when she was scarcely fourteen.

The little kid made sense of how she once lived with her mom and the spouse in Monrovia. However, since her mom's significant other family never enjoyed the mother, her grandma advised the mother to go to Lofa and leave her better half, yet the mother denied, until the unbelievable happened prompting her pregnancy.

Kumba deplored: "That day, when my mama planned to sell, she advised me to lock the entryway. After I wrapped up locking the entryway and fell asleep; my mama spouse tied fabric all over and put garments in my mouth thus, I was unable to yell, and he did terrible thing to me. At that point, I was discharging when he did it to me. At the point when I told my mama, she said spouse can't do something like that."

The young lady further described after some time, her stomach began developing, her mom purchased pregnancy test and tried her and figured out she was pregnant. Be that as it may, by the she made sense of she was at that point three-months pregnant, and nothing emerged from it. "Along these lines, she sent me to my grandmother in Lofa to be here."

When inquired as to whether her mom made any meaningful difference either way with the circumstance, the little kid made sense of that from the start, the mother needed to make a move against the spouse, however individuals told her to avoid it. "Thus, she sent him to his home. That very day I was coming to Lofa, is that very day my stepdad was going to his home," she said.

The mother of the assault casualty has been recognized as Mary Chulutay, known to numerous in the space where the occurrence occurred as Mama Mary.

At the point when we visited the region where Mama Mary resides, numerous inhabitants communicated shock that Mama Mary was the one being blamed for imprudently dealing with the assault adventure including and protecting her better half from specialists examining the matter.

Mother Escapes Capture

On Tuesday, the mother was almost captured yet gotten away and stow away in the Johnsonville region after she was purportedly warned by a relative from Lofa through versatile to get away.

An occupant in the space said the mother escaped the region in the wake of getting the call and was seen leaving the region.

The mother, as per occupants in the space has a child practically the very age of her girls' and that both she and her little girl got pregnant simultaneously.

"On account of the despicable thing, she sent the young lady to Lofa. At the point when individuals began to request who the dad from her girl's youngster was, they were constantly informed that her significant other is in the Southeast, however he is by and by in Nimba Area," one relative told our correspondent.

On Tuesday, Representative Lawrence communicated shock subsequent to watching the video. "This is one second when it took me such a long time to track down my words. I'm profoundly upset that a Liberian kid would be so manhandled and embarrassed squarely in her own country without it turning into a circumstance of public concern. The narrative of this young lady could be illustrative of the untold misfortunes of a few different young ladies the nation over."

The Congressperson said she has previously spoken with her partner, Agent Julie Wiah (Free, Area No. 2, Lofa Area) in whose region the 15-year-old young lady as of now lives. "She (Rep. Wiah) has informed me about endeavors to have the supposed culprits captured and dealt with through the nearby government structure in Lofa District.

Congressperson Lawrence said as a mother and public pioneer, she has been profoundly bothered by the video. "I'm arranging an excursion to Lofa to meet with this young lady and rouse trust in her life. It will be something troublesome searching in her eyes and communicating my sympathy. Yet, all things considered, I set out to do."

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Glenn P. Washington

I am a writer that focuses on true storytelling. I capture the happenings in my country. I might be appealing — but here, I am a writer, turning moments into multiverses and making sure the world hears me out of them.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran2 years ago

    This was so tragic 🥺 Thank you for sharing this.

  • What a story!

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