-A 16-year-old girl explains her ordeal
BY: Shallon S.Gonlor
GANTA CITY, NIMBA CO. — Emmanuel Boe, a 23-year-old man has allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in Ganta City, NimbaCounty.
The Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberia National Police Ganta Zone #1 Detachment on Tuesday charged and forwarded to court, Emmanuel Boe for the commission of the crime of gang rape. The incident occurred in the Old Car Garage Community, Ganta City, Nimba County.
The Offense
The suspect, Emmanuel Boe narrated to investigators: “My brother Alex and I usually sleep in the same room. On Sunday, June 16, 2024, I began to see the little girl with my brother, but when they wanted to do something (sex) I came outside. After they were done with their issue, that was the time all of us slept together in the same room.”
“He (Alex) always came home with some friends (girls) in our room because he had full control over the room. I am not really living here in the room. I came from Saclepea a few days ago. Because of his behavior, our mother got vexed and locked the door. Our mother said we will not sleep in the room, stating that we will not sleep in the room.”
“On Tuesday morning after going to throw dirt my brother came behind me with his girlfriend, the victim.”
“When I came from throwing dirt, I met our mother opening the room door. I saw the girl lying down in the room helpless. I touched her, she could not move any part of her body. I decided to bring her outside in the presence of everybody. I saw white fluid coming from her mouth. My mother bought her Lipton tea, but she was not able to open her mouth to drink, therefore, it’s not my doing” suspect Emmanuel Boe narrated.
Survivor’s Statement
But, in her statement to the police, the 16-year-old rape survivor provided that “On Sunday, June 16, 2024, during
the late evening hours I was in Saclepea. My friend, Princess met me and told me that on Sunday, June 16, 2024, I should bring her to Ganta for us to sell her market (chocolate candy).”
“I agree to come with her to Ganta the next day. So, on Sunday morning, Princess met me and we started to come up with one cartoon of chocolate candy to Ganta to sell.”
“We came by motorbike that day. The bike put us to Saclepeaparking in Ganta where we sold the chocolate candy. During that time it was getting in the evening, so we decided to go back to Saclepea. While at Saclepea parking in Ganta, Princess sent me to buy her bread at a tea shop. She (Princess) gave me LD$120 for the bread but upon my return from the tea shop, Princess was nowhere to be found.”
“I started to cry, walking down the road on the side wall three boys saw me and took me to their house. They promised to help me with a sleeping place and to transport me back the next day to Saclepea, but when we got to their house they took me to their room, and one person left to go back.”
“The other boy who has the room’s brother came. We all slept in the room that first night and both of them (Emmaus Boe and Alex) had sex with me. In the morning, they kept me in the house without eating and evening drinking water for two nights, Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday morning, one lady told the boys’ mother that I was in the room and none of them were around.”
“She came in the room and put me outside when I was helpless, not able to talk and even to wake up or walk. She started to spring cool water over me, asking me to wake up and go to where I came from. In the process, some community dwellers came and advise that they should carry me to the hospital; that how they carry me to the hospital” the 16-year-old rape victim stated.
