{"id":207518,"date":"2025-09-18T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-seek-dna-call-log-evidence-in-alleged-rape-case-involving-deputy-youth-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:41:47","slug":"liberia-police-seek-dna-call-log-evidence-in-alleged-rape-case-involving-deputy-youth-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-seek-dna-call-log-evidence-in-alleged-rape-case-involving-deputy-youth-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Police Seek DNA, Call Log Evidence in Alleged Rape Case Involving Deputy Youth Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\"><strong>MONROVIA &#8212;<\/strong> The Liberia National Police has asked the U.S. Embassy to help conduct DNA tests in its investigation of Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Bryant McGill, who is accused of raping a minor. Authorities have also petitioned the court for a warrant to examine McGill&#8217;s phone records to determine if he communicated with the alleged survivor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">At a press briefing in Monrovia, Inspector General Gregory Coleman confirmed that the child had been violated, prompting public outrage, but stressed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509180067.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>MONROVIA &#8212; The Liberia National Police has asked the U.S. Embassy to help conduct DNA tests in its investigation of Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Bryant McGill, who is accused of raping a minor. Authorities have also petitioned the court for a warrant to examine McGill&#8217;s phone records to determine if he communicated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207519,"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":[258,256,4305,6880,6683,6012,13947,7013,22060,4712,1107,12186,5941,257,662,305,7745,254,6276],"class_list":["post-207518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-call","tag-case","tag-deputy","tag-dna","tag-evidence","tag-involving","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-log","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rape","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/207518","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=207518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}