{"id":2410,"date":"2025-11-13T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/high-court-jails-man-20-years-for-raping-five-year-old-girl\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:16:53","slug":"high-court-jails-man-20-years-for-raping-five-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/high-court-jails-man-20-years-for-raping-five-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court jails man 20 years for raping five-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in Banjul has sentenced Saikou Bah to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of raping a five-year-old girl in Sinchu Alhagie.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that the incident happened in June 2021. The victim, now eight, identified Bah as the man who assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>A medical officer who examined the child also gave evidence, and the medical report was admitted in court.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s mother testified that her daughter reported the matter to her.<\/p>\n<p>Bah denied the allegation and claimed he had been attacked by the victim\u2019s family before being handed over to police. His wife also testified, but the court rejected their evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Jaiteh said the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt and described the offence as serious because of the victim\u2019s young age.<\/p>\n<p>Bah was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The High Court in Banjul has sentenced Saikou Bah to 20 years in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}