Liberia: Father Rapes Daughter

Spectators stood agape in the Zwedru Courthouse in Grand Gedeh County last week when a weeping 14-year old girl narrated the incredible and depraved story of her father raping and impregnating her. According to the story, father Washington Wesseh had unsuccessfully attempted on three occasions to have sex with his daughter, name withheld. He finally succeeded when he made another trial, leading to impregnating the girl, an astounded jam-packed courtroom, attended by prosecuting attorney Joseph Payne, heard.

Speaking behind the camera at the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court in Zwedru, the provincial capital of Grand Gedeh, the weeping girl told a disbelieving audience that her father's immoral gestures to her began last March when her sick mother sent her and her brother to him at the Prime Time Protection (PTP) Refugee camp where he works as a contractor.

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