Microcredit Finance Company Cleaner Sentenced to 25 Years for Rape
Salamatu Y. Kamara Justice Adrian Fisher at High Court No.1 has sentenced thirty-eight-year-old Mohamed Swarray, a cleaner at a microcredit finance company in Portee, to 25 years imprisonment at the Male Correctional Facility in Freetown for rape.
The convict, Swarray, was charged with rape, contrary to Section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act 2012 (Act No.12 of 2012), as repealed and replaced by Section 2(a)(ii) of the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 2019 (Act No.8 of 2019).
The charge sheet indicated that, on November 23rd, 2023, in Freetown, Swarray intentionally committed an act of sexual penetration on a woman without her consent.
The victim testified that she was raped by Swarray after she was detained at the microcredit office because she was unable to pay her loan after her daughter was sick and admitted in the hospital for several days.
Justice Fisher while giving the ruling stated that Swarray should not have been outside the community, as he took advantage of the victim’s vulnerable condition.
The court found sufficient evidence to convict him of the charge, and was sentenced to 25 years to the male correctional facility in Freetown.
These are the Judges we need. What sort of wickedness
Basha sex, and harbour under age girls
For over a weeks in his house..
And go free , without any charges
But when it comes to sierra leonean
The judiciary taken action.
Ee pass sef bra ahh
Like seriously 🙄 😒 😐
The discriminatory justice in this country is becoming an alarming situation , in sierra Leone our justice system is a problem . Can that judge or magistrate compare the act of the cleaner and that of basha , when it is clearly stated that there is no consent of a child in the sexual offences act, yet basha was not found culprable, even though the action of the cleaner is in acceptable, but his sentence is not commensurate at all. Is it because of his economic status in the society ? What a rouge in the justice sector?
Koroma you are perfectly correct 💯
The justice system in Sierra Leone is a major problem.
It’s quite true that the guy is guilty for sleeping with a lady without her comcent in this context, but the sentence term laid on him is tooo much. 25 years is something else…
How sufficient is the evidence even!? Most times these women just make blatant accusations against men for rape ! …. And that sentence is a murder sentence! OmG 😳 25 years for raping a full grown woman is too much for crying out loud! Maybe the judge took it personal!