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The Liberian girl captured as top looter in Prima Mattress Blaze has denied the accusations. Sonie K. Baysah has been trending on social media after she was captured lifting a brand-new refrigerator as part of a looting exercise at the Prima Mattress Store in Paynesville during a fire outbreak.<\/p>\n
However, speaking on Thursday, 22nd January 2026, in a podcast, Sonnie slams the accusations against her as character assassination.<\/p>\n
“I did not go to steal; I went to help, and it is a shame to lie against…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Liberian girl captured as top looter in Prima Mattress Blaze has denied the accusations. Sonie K. Baysah has been trending on social media after she was captured lifting a brand-new refrigerator as part of a looting exercise at the Prima Mattress Store in Paynesville during a fire outbreak. However, speaking on Thursday, 22nd January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221858,"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":[15879,258,256,34154,12020,9643,11490,4712,1107,257,254,9201],"class_list":["post-221857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accusation","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-box","tag-clarifies","tag-girl","tag-ice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theft"],"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\/221857","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=221857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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