{"id":177489,"date":"2024-07-29T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rape-court-sentences-two-men-for-gang-rape\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:19:13","slug":"liberia-rape-court-sentences-two-men-for-gang-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rape-court-sentences-two-men-for-gang-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Rape Court Sentences Two Men for Gang Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Criminal Court &#8220;E&#8221; Judge Serena F. Garlawolu has found Diamond G. Doe and Luke Pole guilty of gang rape, sentencing them to fifteen and twelve years in prison, respectively, as a deterrent to future lawbreakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">On July 8, 2024, the court ruled the two defendants guilty of gang rape according to the New Penal Code of Liberia and postponed their sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The court requested the Probation Division of the Ministry of Justice to conduct a presentence investigation in the communities where Diamond&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250419.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Court &#8220;E&#8221; Judge Serena F. Garlawolu has found Diamond G. Doe and Luke Pole guilty of gang rape, sentencing them to fifteen and twelve years in prison, respectively, as a deterrent to future lawbreakers. On July 8, 2024, the court ruled the two defendants guilty of gang rape according to the New Penal Code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6185,8206,4712,1107,6801,257,305,9735,254],"class_list":["post-177489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-gang","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-men","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}