The police have sent findings of an autopsy performed on the body of a 12-year-old girl who was killed after being raped in a Brewerville community on the outskirts of Monrovia.
Col. Joseph Flomo, Police commissioner for Crime and Service Department confirmed to our reporter that a pathologist at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia had carried out the autopsy on the body of Musu Fofana.
“We have done an autopsy on the victim’s body, but we are still waiting for the results and has been forwarded to the Brewerville Magisterial Court,” he said.
He, however, could not confirm whether the pathologist was a Liberian, but stated that the autopsy was done this week and the release of the report was pending.
The family of Ma Musu, as she was aliased, said they were shocked to see the corpse of their dead daughter beyond recognition at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center.
Sadia Kargblee, aunt of the deceased, said she was brought to tears when the health worker pulled the drawer that contained the mortal remains of the 12-year-old rape victim and she could not recognize the victim.
“Yesterday we saw the body, it was swollen up; we could not identify the body. We only knew it was our sister by the clothes she wore,” she told newsmen recently as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf left their home when she visited the bereaved family.
Police have charged Musa Kanneh, the alleged rapist with rape and murder. The arrest and charging of the suspect followed an investigation upon his arrest on January 21, 2015 in Brewerville outside Monrovia.
Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection Duncan-Cassell has meanwhile reaffirmed government’s commitment to ensure that all forms of violence perpetrated against women and children are speedily prosecuted.
Minister Cassell appearing at the Information Ministry regular press briefing Wednesday said violence against women remains unpunished and perpetrators rely on the culture of impunity to commit these acts, leaving the government with no alternative but to exert efforts to prosecute offenders as a deterrent.
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