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Six former female students of a renowned girls’ secondary school in Bo city, arrested and jailed last week for alleged illegal gathering, were hit with criminal charges by the Sierra Leone Police, and arraigned in front of a magistrates’ courtroom, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
Bo West police Divison Local Unit Commander Sheku Kamara, said the six girls, all ‘Old Girls’ of Queen of the Rosary Secondary School here in Bo, arrested Saturday, were charged to court on Wednesday.
“The police charged them to court for unlawful assembly,” LUC Kamara said in a WhatsApp text message.
A judiciary source tells TV-News24 the six female students appeared before Magistrate Lyod Jusu of The Judiciary of Sierra Leone – and were released after being cautioned.
And a local journalist, unaffiliated with TV-News24, but was inside the courtroom, said the former students were given monetary fines before being released.
TV-News24 is yet to independently confirm all of these details with the judiciary. But can confirm that the students are no longer in police custody – nor in jail.
In fact, they were seen at the police station with their parents after their court appearance. They spoke to TV-News24 and weren’t pleased with the circumstances surrounding their situation.
The parent(s) who spoke to TV-News24 were also very angry about the situation.
