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Liberia: Angel Togba's Family Against Third Autopsy
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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
14 April 2008
Posted to the web 14 April 2008
Garmonyou Wilson
Monrovia
The parents of the late Meideh 'Angel' Togba have said that if the government of Liberia does not clarify why the medical examiner, Anthony Quayee did not give Angel's missing parts to the Cuban pathologist, Hernandez, they would resist anyone from exhuming her remains for the third autopsy.
The parents revealed that after Dr. Quayee had conducted the first autopsy, a rift erupted between the Stryker Funeral Parlor and the medical examiner as to what happened to the body's missing uterus and thorax, a situation the government said they would conduct an investigation into.
In an exclusive interview with this paper, the mother of Little Angel, Mrs. Susan Togba said that the family is looking up to the government to come out with findings into the missing parts and that anyone who tries to exhume the body would undoubtedly meet with stiff resistance.
Mrs. Togba, in her state of lamentation and frustration, stated that the medical examiner should be arrested if he has any link to the missing parts of their late daughter.
The Justice Ministry released Angel's remains to the family in mid-February without any missing parts earlier indicated and was buried the same month, after the body had suffered two separate autopsies without those vital parts.
Now that the defense counsel, Cllr. Musa Dean has been granted permission by the Ministry of Justice to exhume the remains of Togba and for a subsequent third autopsy to be performed, it is then expedient that the once missing parts be available to facilitate the autopsy.
The parents of the little victim who was allegedly raped and murdered by Mr. Hans Williams and his fiancée, Mardea Williams are calling on the accused if they have had any part to play in the death of Angel; even if it were through accident, that they, the Togba family, are willing to forgive them.
"There are important factors in the case that have relieved the mental tension and torture the family has been undergoing, and that is, they know from the evidences that had been revealed to them have made them to deduce that their little Angel did not kill herself," Mrs. Togba noted.
"How could it be possible for a little girl at home with ten other people presumably coming from eating end up hanging herself with her uterus cartilage injured and panties torn? Two autopsies have shown this and yet the defense counsel wants a third autopsy," late Angel's parents wondered.
They further revealed that the late Angel had spent only three months at the William's residence at which time the family said that Angel communicated with them at least twice a week and never showed any sign of unhappiness.
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Commenting on the third autopsy and the three new pathologists that are expected, Mrs. Togba asked, "Whose interest are they coming for? Is it in the interest of the family, the victim or in the interest of the accused?"
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