{"id":248033,"date":"2026-10-24T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-convicts-nsa-agent-peter-bon-jallah-of-statutory-rape-kidnapping-of-16-year-old-boy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:00:07","slug":"liberia-court-convicts-nsa-agent-peter-bon-jallah-of-statutory-rape-kidnapping-of-16-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-convicts-nsa-agent-peter-bon-jallah-of-statutory-rape-kidnapping-of-16-year-old-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Court Convicts NSA Agent Peter Bon Jallah of Statutory Rape, Kidnapping of 16-Year-Old Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">National Security Agency agent Peter Bon Jallah was convicted Friday of the statutory rape and kidnapping of a 16-year-old boy and ordered held at the Monrovia Central Prison until he is sentenced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Criminal Assizes Court &#8220;E&#8221; for Montserrado County found Jallah, 63, guilty on both counts after a bench trial but acquitted him of gang rape, ruling that the prosecution had not presented sufficient evidence to support that charge. Assigned Circuit Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh Sr. delivered the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230506.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>National Security Agency agent Peter Bon Jallah was convicted Friday of the statutory rape and kidnapping of a 16-year-old boy and ordered held at the Monrovia Central Prison until he is sentenced. Criminal Assizes Court &#8220;E&#8221; for Montserrado County found Jallah, 63, guilty on both counts after a bench trial but acquitted him of gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248034,"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":[26424,258,256,10537,11705,7654,7646,6185,37398,1457,4712,1107,257,8876,6066,305,254,12014],"class_list":["post-248033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-16yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agent","tag-bon","tag-boy","tag-convicts","tag-court","tag-jallah","tag-kidnapping","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nsa","tag-peter","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statutory"],"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\/248033","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=248033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}