Former Redemption Hospital Administrator Charged with Rape

By Garmah Lomoh|Contributor

The former administrator of the Redemption Hospital in New Kru town known as Tobias Bowen age 51 has been charged with rape by the Liberian national Police in Monrovia.

 Police investigation conducted disclosed that the defendant Tobias Bowen was arrested and acquainted with his constitutional rights and investigated based on complaint filed by the survivor relative in which he alleged that his 15 year Grand daughter was allegedly raped by defendant Tobias.

During the investigation showed the following facts between both the defendant and survivor.

That the defendant and the survivor’s Grandmother are close neighbor and the survivor sometimes goes to spend time with her grand mother in Bernard’s farm.

That the survivor grand mother used the defendant land to make garden and that the defendant can asked to buy green (palava souce, potato green and others) from the survivor’s grand mother.


According to the survivor, when she carried the palava souce to the defendant in his fence on September 18,2019, he defendant asked her to bath his daughter and after bathing the child in the Defendant’s bathroom, he put the child outside  and had sex with her in his room.

That the defendant and the survivor have been communicating on phone during the third period 2019-2020 test academic year after which the defendant drove she and her friend in his car from rehab to the Zubah town foot ball field at her house junction after school.

After dropping the survivor and her friend, he gave the survivor one thousand Liberian Dollars and also gave her friend nine hundred Liberian Dollars.

Medical report obtained from the one stop center Deport Road showed that the survivor was tempered with.

The survivor was 14 years while the defendant was 50 year old when the act (rape) was committed.

Defendant Bowen was charged in violation of  Chapter 14 section 14.70 of new penal code of the Republic of Liberia.

Section 14.70 States a person who has sexual intercourse with another person (male or female) has committed rape if

(a)(I) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus, mouth or any opening of another person ( male or female) with his penis without the victim’s consent.

The victim is less than eighteen years old provided the actor is eighteen years of age or older.

Meanwhile, defendant Bowen is currently incarcerated at the Monrovia Central prison awaiting court trial.

It can be recalled in 2015, Tobais was accused of raping a teenage girl in the UK while he was then serving as administrator of the Redemption Hospital and then went on the run.