Magistrate Solomon Christian Kekurah at York Village Court has sentenced one Abu Bakarr Koroma (18) to four years of imprisonment after finding him guilty on two counts of domestic violence and sexual harassment against his step mother.

The man received two years for each count which the magistrate said were to run consecutively.

The court also committed the convict, Koroma to the High Court for trial on another count of grievous bodily harm, after he allegedly poured caustic soda on his victim step mother, Jamilatu Koroma causing her to lose her sight in the right eye.

Magistrate Kekurah passed the judgment on Wednesday September 10, 2025 and the convicted teenager did not ask for mercy before he was sentenced.

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The prosecution in a bid to prove their case brought three witnesses with the first being the victim, Jamilatu Koroma. She told the court that she resides at Baw-Baw community and that the convict is her step son.

Ms. Koroma (28) said on Thursday April 3, 2025 in the evening, she had returned from her workplace as a house help and gave the convict Le 5 to buy her mobile phone airtime and gave him her phone and she went into her bedroom and slept off.

The witness said she was woken up by the convict and the room was dark. She said minutes later she saw light and became terrified as the light went on and off. The witness said she saw the convict standing by her bed with a knife and stick in hand.

At this point, she said she was afraid for her life as the convict pushed her and poured something on her face, which she later realized was caustic soda. She said it felt so painful that she cried out saying, “You have killed me.”

According to the witness, she attempted to run for her life, but the convict pushed her back into her room and she fell to the ground and the convict sat on her and pulled out a knife.

The convict told her that he only wanted three things from her; her business money, her phone and that she should allow him to have sexual intercourse with her, to which the witness said she refused but the convict went ahead forcefully to have sexual intercourse with her anyway.

The magistrate did not allow the witness to delve into the sexual conduct further saying his court lacked the jurisdiction to hear and determine sexual offences, but that the court can hear and determine the resultant effect of the convict’s sexual violence and the psychological state of the victim.

According to magistrate Kekurah, the convict can be further investigated for the offence of rape on an indictment by the Attorney General for a direct trial at the High Court.

In his judgment, the magistrate pointed out that “having examined the entirety of the evidence before me I am of the strongest conviction that the prosecution has proven their case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt,” he said.