Monrovia - The Supreme Court has confirmed the guilty verdict of a 20-year-old man that raped a 10-year-old girl in 2011. James Marfalon was sentenced to 10 years by the jury at Criminal Court “’E”, an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court but the sentence was extended to 25 years. Associate Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh reading the opinion said the Supreme Court agreed that Marfalon committed the act based on the facts and supporting evidence adduced during the trial of the case. The court record shows that the defendant lied when he testified that he rented his generator to a friend a night before the incident. Yuoh said the trial judge committed no error in overruling the defendant question regarding the inclusion of additional witness’s statements.

Source: Front Page Africa October 06, 2017 03:56 UTC