Liberia: Man Shoots Wife for 'Cheating'

2 September 2014

A young woman, Teiwah Dama Taylor, was Friday night shot in her leg by her husband in the Fendell community on grounds that she is having an affair with another person.Speaking to this paper, Teiwah explained that she has always been threatened by her husband whenever they had problem but could not leave her home because she wanted to stay and take care of her children.

According to Teiwah, it was on Friday when she left to sell cassava leaves in the market but later got news from a family member that her aunty was dead so she decided to ascertain the information but unfortunately she went home in the evening, something which she said angered her husband angry.

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