By Saidu Dumbuya
A recent case of incest is being investigated by
police officers attached to the Susan's Bay Police Post. Detective Police
Sergeant Mohamed Koroma at the Police Post said at about 3:00 pm on Monday, 30th
August 2021, Mabinty Kamara reported an incest matter involving her husband,
Foday Turay.
According to the Police Sgt., Mabinty reported that
her husband has had a love affair with her younger brother's daughter (name
withheld), who she brought from the provinces to attend school in Freetown.
Inspector general of Police Ambrose Sovula
According to Mabinty's report, she handed the 15-year-old
girl to her husband immediately after she brought her home, adding that her
husband accepted wholeheartedly for the little girl to stay with them.
According to Mabity's report, Sgt. Koroma relayed, it
all started on a day she asked her niece to meet her at her business place.
She alleged that as the girl was preparing to go to the
business place as she had asked to, her husband, Foday Turay beckoned her to wait
a while on the premise that he wanted her to launder his shirts, adding that
her husband, having had a strong intent to assault the girl sexually, asked her
to enter their room to collect the shirts, noting that no sooner the girl
entered the room than he shut the door and rushed at her, holding up her mouth
tightly to prevent neighbours from getting any screaming from within.
Mabinty's report suggests that having succeeded in
deflowering the girl, Foday warned her strongly against revealing anything to
her aunt and admonished the girl to pretend she fell ill as an excuse for her
failure to go to the business place as her aunty had asked her to.
"As a matter of fact, it is my very husband who
now chose to defend the girl when I came home that day, saying that she fell
sick suddenly after laundering his shirts," the Police Sergeant quoted Mabinty
to have alleged in her report, adding that after several months of suspicion
that her husband was having an affair with her niece when she would have gone
to do her business, she baited them by deliberately assigning the task of
cleaning up their room.
Mabinty maintained that on that fateful day, she
retired home before usual, and upon her arrival, she caught her husband
red-handed whilst in sexual activity with her niece.
"I yelled at them in surprise, and my husband
immediately jumped out through the window and disappeared into thin air,"
Sgt. Koroma also quoted Mabinty to have said in her report.
She noted that when she enquired with her niece as to
how long they have been in the trick, "longer a bit, several times",
was the girl's response, and to a query as to why she didn't make the issue
known earlier on, the girl replied that Mr. Turay had threatened to kill her if
she dared disclose anything to anybody.
As things stand, the Police have launched a rigorous
search for Mr. Foday Turay, while the girl is being closely monitored and
protected by the Police.
This story was put together with support from
Journalists for Human Right (JHR) and the Sierra Leone Association of
Journalists (SLAJ) Human Rights Fellowship.
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