{"id":20278,"date":"2011-03-04T00:24:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2011-03-04T00:24:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:24:19","slug":"police-sergeant-rapes-girl-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20278","title":{"rendered":"Police Sergeant Rapes Girl 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A police sergeant age 42 was yesterday refused bail after making his first appearance before Magistrate Mohamed Binneh Kamara to answer to one count charge of abuse of a young girl contrary to Section 6 of the Prevention of Cruelty Against Child Act 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the particulars of offence, it is stated that on Thursday 17<sup>th<\/sup> at the Kingtom Police Barracks, the accused unlawfully abused a 13 year old girl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a fact that human rights organizations have made frantic efforts to help eradicate the abuse of young girls in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That the police being an arm that is responsible to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of offences of rape, have on many occasions benefited financial support from respective international organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is disappointing though that a police sergeant is said to have abused a teenage girl and is now in court answering to an allegation of rape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused has been remanded in custody pending next court appearance on 10<sup>th<\/sup> March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is expected that the prosecution will start its case in the next sitting.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary Kamara, Freetown<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police sergeant age 42 was yesterday refused bail after making his first appearance before Magistrate Mohamed Binneh Kamara to answer to one count charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[1792,7227,744,5492],"class_list":["post-20278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-child-abuse","tag-officer-rapes-child","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}