A 12-year-old girl, named withheld, was on Sunday, June 19, 2022, gang raped by four boys in one of the classrooms of the Fish Town Community School.
According to the victim, her mother sent her to buy bread and tea, and she was accompanied by her little sister.
Leaving their Jayproken road, she said boys came their way and asked her to give them the money meant to buy her mom’s bread and tea, which she refused. The boys then seized her, drove her little sister away by chasing her, showing knives and scissors at her.
According to Alfred Sieh, the security officer on duty at the Fish Town Community School, he heard noise in one of the classrooms and noticed someone crying.
“When I flash the light, I saw someone running from the classroom. So I cut off the light and walked to the class; I flash the light and stood by the door and saw three boys and the girl on the ground crying saying they had raped her,” the officer explained.
“But one of the accused boys, Alpha Norring, whose father, Albert Norring, is a police officer assigned in Karwenken, said the victim is his girlfriend. So when I was asking him what the other three boys were doing there they got scared and ran out. So I called the school’s principal to report the matter,” the officer added.
The principal of the school, Teresa Chea, confirmed that the security officer reported the case to her by 1:28 a.m., and she was able to call Radio Gee and officer Agatha Potee, head of the Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberia National Police (LNP) by 5:00 a.m.
According the school’s authorities, the two persons identified by the victim and the security guard were former students of the institution.
Seated on a plank chair in the office of the principal awaiting police arrival, the victim, with teary eyes, said the other boy (one of the perpetrators), Andrew Toe, popularly known as Terry, is a son to one of Christian Cheas’ drivers.
According to sources, the son of the police officer is a regular customer to the police cells. He was recently jailed for stealing someone’s phone and money, and a leading member of a group of thugs operating in Fish Town, River Gee County.
The father of the victim and the police were yet to come and take the victim to the hospital up to press time.