Fatmata Kamara, a mother who was convicted for throwing her newborn baby in a pit toilet has given account of the incident that led to the death of the child. 

High Court Judge, Honourable Justice Adrian Jocelyn Fisher on Tuesday sentenced Kamara to Twenty-Four years imprisonment after she was found guilty of the offence of Manslaughter.

According to the particulars of the offence, on the 20th day of October 2019 at Freetown, in the Western Area of the Republic of Sierra Leone, the accused murdered her newborn baby.

The facts of the case read that “A newborn baby was discovered in a pit toilet on 20th day of October 2019. Neighbors went to the scene after an alarm had been raised by one Kumba and the accused Fatmata Kamara was there but didn’t tell anyone that the newborn baby was her own child.

“A police officer noticed blood on the accused Fatmata Kamara and immediately arrested her for further investigations. When interviewed by the police, she said whilst pregnant, she went to attend to nature in the same pit toilet.”

Narrating her side of the story, Kamara said that on that faithful day, she felt stomach pain and went to use the toilet when the child came out of her vagina while using the pit.  “When I went to use the toilet, the child came out of my vagina and later fell into the pit,” she said.

In her statement, accused Fatmata Kamara told the Court that she was not happy with the pregnancy because the man she got pregnant for was a married man. She added that she used different medications to abort the pregnancy but to no avail.