By Garmah Lomoh|LPR News, Monrovia
Police in Monrovia has arrested, investigated, charged and sent to court 15 year –old rape victim step father Johnson Chuluty who allegedly raped and impregnated her.
According to police charge sheet, on May 27, 2020, Ceasar Morris reported to women and children protection section Central headquarters that on May 24,2020, received a video on Facebook messenger from his friend about the victim narrating her story about how she raped by her step-father defendant Johnson Chuluty which resulted into pregnancy and she has since given birth to a child.
Information revealed that after the victim mother Mary Chuluty discovered that her daughter was sexually abused and gotten pregnant by her husband Johnson Chuluty, Mary Chuluty sent the victim to her Grandmother Tenneh Ponkay in Foya, Lofa County.
During an interview with the victim, she narrated to the investigators that she was living with her mother Mary Chuluty and step father defendant Johnson Chuluty in Johnsonville, Montserrado County prior to her sending back in Lofa County.
The victim further stated that her mother Mary Chuluty usually go sell early in the morning about 4:30-5:00am leaving she and her brother with defendant Johnson Chuluty to the house and when her mother leave, her step father defendant Chuluty will put her brother outside and have sex with her by inserting his penis inside her private part.
Narrating further, the victim explained to the investigators that after sometime, her mother noticed that she was pregnant, her mother did her MTT test, it was positive and she told her mother it was her step father defendant Chuluty that had sex and impregnated her.
For his part, defendant Johnson Chuluty admitted that he had sex with his step daughter several times which resulted to pregnancy and when his wife Mary Chuluty noticed that the victim was pregnant, he ran away from the house.
Investigation details showed that defendant Chuluty that it was discovered that the victim was pregnant, defendant Chuluty ran away from the house and placed himself in hiding from December 2018 up to June 1,2020 when he was arrested.
Defendant Chuluty had sex with the victim by intentionally penetrating her private part with his penis without her consent.
That defendant Chuluty was 34year old which is older than eighteen years of age and the victim was 15year old less than eighteen years of age at the time of the incident.
” I was not arrested, I reported myself after I saw the girl information on Facebook that they were looking for me”, Johnson told LPR judiciary correspondent on Friday afternoon.
He is at the same time asking for forgiveness from his step-daughter and mother for his conduct.
Meanwhile, the police has charged defendant Johnson Chuluty with rape in violation of the Act to Amend the New penal code Chapter 14 section 14:70 and to provide for Gang rape approved December 29, A.D., 2005 and published by Authority of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Monrovia, Liberia January 17,2006.
The law states that “A person who has sexual intercourse with another person’s (Male or female) has committed rape if
(a)(I) He intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus, mouth or any other opening of another person(male or female) with his penis, without the victim’s consent.
(b) the victim is less than eighteen years old, provided the actor is eighteen years of age or older.
He will be reminded to the Monrovia Central prison awaiting Court trial.
