{"id":201553,"date":"2025-07-03T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-sentences-62-year-old-man-to-10-years-for-attempted-rape-of-4-year-old-in-nimba\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:49:50","slug":"liberia-court-sentences-62-year-old-man-to-10-years-for-attempted-rape-of-4-year-old-in-nimba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-sentences-62-year-old-man-to-10-years-for-attempted-rape-of-4-year-old-in-nimba\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Court Sentences 62-Year-Old Man to 10 Years for Attempted Rape of 4-Year-Old in Nimba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8211; The 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Nimba County on Tuesday sentenced a 62-year-old man to 10 years in prison for attempting to rape a 4-year-old girl in Ganta earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Judge Musa S. Sidibey handed down the sentence against Harris Gleeman following a week-long bench trial before the court&#8217;s Sexual Offenses Division in Sanniquellie. The court found Gleeman guilty of criminal attempt to commit rape, a second-degree felony under Liberian law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The crime occurred on March 9, 2025, when&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030681.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>&#8211; The 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Nimba County on Tuesday sentenced a 62-year-old man to 10 years in prison for attempting to rape a 4-year-old girl in Ganta earlier this year. Judge Musa S. Sidibey handed down the sentence against Harris Gleeman following a week-long bench trial before the court&#8217;s Sexual Offenses Division in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[51791,51790,258,256,16253,6185,4712,1107,6867,257,2962,305,9735,254,5114],"class_list":["post-201553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-4yearold","tag-62yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempted","tag-court","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-man","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-rape","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/201553","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=201553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}