KAMARAINBA NAILED

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The statements and evidence of a 15-year-old sexual penetration victim was challenged in cross examination by defense counsels for Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray and Marion Arouni, both standing trial at the Sexual Model Court before Justice Samuel O. Taylor in Freetown.

Both accused persons are facing seven counts related criminal charges, ranging from conspiracy, sexual penetration, meeting a child for sexual purposes, to aiding and abetting contrary to the Sexual Amendment Act of 2019. In his cross examination, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray lead defense counsel, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai put it to the prosecution witness that the vehicle colour of his client is not green but grey, and that the first visit of the victim to Freetown was not in March, but sometime in February 2020.

The victim in response to the questions, confirmed the colour of the first accused person`s vehicle to be green and that her first visit to Freetown was in March 2020, on a funeral of the second accused person Marion Arouni’s grandfather.

Lawyer Saffa Abdulai went on that the house of the first accused person contains four bed rooms and not three. In her answer, the victim claimed is three bed rooms and not four. In answering to Lawyer J.M. Jengo’s questions on behalf of the second accused person, Marion Arouni, the victim told the court that she was fed-up with her situation that was why she decided to leave the house of her aunt Marion Arouni and not because she (Marion) took her (victim) belongings as claimed by defense counsel.

The victim further confirmed that she never told Nurse Mary that she (victim) was having problem with injection prevention that is why she (victim) decided to insert the Captain Band preventive.

According to the victim’s response to counsel questions, she did not know the grandfather of the second accused person but have heard of the name Pa. Sima Kamara. The witness added that she first knew Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray in January 2019 and not in February 2020 as she stated in her statement made to the Police on the 17th July 2020.

“In my statement to the Police I told them about my encounter at Diamond Lodge Hotel with the first accused person Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, but I did not know why the Police did not state that it in my statement”, the victim said.

Several inconsistencies in the victim statements to the Police and testimony before the court were tested against the facts. The matter was adjourned to Saturday 5th September 2020 for questioning on the victim’s birth certificate.

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