June 17, 2021
BY PROBLYN JOHN ALPHA
Police at the Bo East division are currently investigating an alleged aggravated sexual assault matter involving an eleven 11 yrs old girl at Tengbehwabu section in Bo.
According to the spokesperson of the Sierra Leone Police Southern region Inspector Mohamed Bobson Senu, the incident was reported at the aforementioned police division on the eight (8) of June 2021.
He added that on the fateful day the alleged sexual penetration survivor’s father organized a programme at their residence and invited his friends to grace the programme of which they spent the whole of the night at the programme noting that all of the sudden the alleged perpetrator reportedly grabbed and dragged the survivor in an unfinished nearby house and forcefully penetrated the girl.
Meanwhile, the report further explained that the sexually penetrated girl who is a dumb battled with the alleged perpetrator but was later over powered and made at least two men to be suspicious of what was going on who also raised alarm that led to the arrest of the alleged perpetrator who is now in police custody helping them in their investigation, whilst the survivor is currently responding to treatment.
When asked to know how the police are going to investigate the matter when the alleged sexual penetration survivor is a dumb? Inspector Senu pointed out that they were going to use identification parade for the survivor to identify the perpetrator for herself. He conclusively intimated our correspondent that the police have plans to engage the services of a sign language expert to help them ease their investigation.