Liberia: Grandmother’s Rape Case Shows a Paralyzed Justice System Where Just Two Convictions Have Been Won in Six Years and Rapists Walk Free

Summary: By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New Narratives TODEE DISTRICT, Montserrado County — The first time they came, they brought L$18,000  (US$100).

The second time the family brought a lapa, a traditional cloth.

When the family, whose 24-year-old son had been accused by multiple witnesses of raping the 57-year-old grandmother in broad daylight in […] ...