𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲.
Justice Samuel Omodale Taylor has convicted and sentenced the former Leader and Chairman and 2018 Presidential candidate of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray to 32 years in jail.
The judgment was delivered in the evening hours of Friday 17th February 2023, at the Sexual Offences Model Court, main Law Court Building on Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown.
Because he was unable to walk or stand on his feet, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray was brought to Court from his Annex Unit at Connaught Hospital on a stretcher to face judgment.
Kamarainba lay on the bare floor of the Court room and Marion Lamin Arouni was in the dock when the trial Judge was reading out the judgment.
Justice Samuel Omodale Taylor found the then accused persons guilty of all seven counts of sexual penetration and other related criminal offences.
Out of the above counts indictment proffered by the State, Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray was found guilty on five counts and he is to serve a sentence of Fifteen (15) Years on each counts.
The second convict Marion Lamin Arouni was found guilty on three counts of conspiracy to aiding and abetting, and she is to serve 15 years for conspiracy, and two years on each of the remaining two counts indictment.
The Judge sometime in 2022 granted bail to both accused persons, but Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray was unable to meet his bail condition and has since his arrest in mid-2020 on his voluntary report at the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) been on remand.
During the trial, they pleaded not guilty to all counts charged, and in December 2021 the State Prosecutor Umu Sumaray closed her case after leading over ten witnesses.
In her testimony in Court, the 15-year-old victim and a Junior Secondary School (JSS3) Pupil said she knows Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray through her care giver (Mrs Arouni).
She recalled on the 14th February 2020 when Kamarainba took her to the Diamond Lodge Hotel in Kono where he allegedly deflowered her.
Another prosecution witness Nurse Mary, attached to the Koidu Government Hospital, recalled administering a contraceptive to the victim sometime before the 14th February 2020.
In cross examination the prosecution witness nurse Mary said since her practice as a medical nurse a contraceptive is not administered on a virgin, but only on those that have started having sex.
In his defense, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray denied been in Kono district on 14th of February 2020. This piece of evidence was corroborated by his witnesses.
According Marion Lamin Arouni, the contraceptive was administered to the victim with the instruction and consent of the mother Tiangay Sannoh, who pleaded not to disclose it to her husband.
A battery of Lawyers led by Dr. Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai represented the first convict Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, and Lawyer Jessy Munda Jengo represented the second convict Mrs. Marion Lamin Arouni.
