{"id":212660,"date":"2025-11-06T01:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-judge-barco-reinstates-charges-against-miss-liberia-1st-runner-up-kindness-wilson\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:28:57","slug":"liberia-judge-barco-reinstates-charges-against-miss-liberia-1st-runner-up-kindness-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-judge-barco-reinstates-charges-against-miss-liberia-1st-runner-up-kindness-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Judge Barco Reinstates Charges Against Miss Liberia 1st Runner-Up Kindness Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 The Monrovia City Court Stipendiary Magistrate Ben Barco, has rescinded his earlier ruling that dismissed assault charges against Miss Liberia 1st Runner-Up, Kindness Wilson, effectively reinstating the case after prosecutors challenged his previous decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The reversal followed a motion filed by state prosecutors, led by Cllr. Moriah Yeakula-Korkpor, seeking to overturn the court&#8217;s October 27 ruling, which cleared Wilson of simple assault and disorderly conduct charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Judge Barco&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511050488.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Monrovia \u2014 The Monrovia City Court Stipendiary Magistrate Ben Barco, has rescinded his earlier ruling that dismissed assault charges against Miss Liberia 1st Runner-Up, Kindness Wilson, effectively reinstating the case after prosecutors challenged his previous decision. The reversal followed a motion filed by state prosecutors, led by Cllr. Moriah Yeakula-Korkpor, seeking to overturn the court&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212661,"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":[12504,258,256,52801,7578,7511,31362,4712,1107,257,20928,20313,254,16922],"class_list":["post-212660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-1st","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barco","tag-charges","tag-judge","tag-kindness","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-reinstates","tag-runnerup","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wilson"],"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\/212660","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=212660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}