The 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, has sentenced defendant Momo Kanneh to 10 years in prison. The Court decision on Friday, July 12, 2024, came as a result of a unanimous guilty verdict handed down by jurors sitting at the May Term of Court on crimes of aggravated assaults and murder.
It can be recalled that defendant Momo Kanneh on January 30, 2024, in Lowa Town, Klay District on early Tuesday morning spilled acid on his ex-girlfriend, Watta Sheriff age 27 for her refusal to continue the relationship with him.
The victim, who was taken to the Liberian Government Hospital in Tubmanburg following the incident in narrating her sorrowful ordeal, said she and the perpetrator have been living together for over five years but has always been treating her in a dehumanizing manner.
Prior to her death, she revealed that as a result of his maltreatment toward her, she could no longer continue the relationship with him, something, according she earlier informed the victim about.
27-year-old Hawa Sheriff said while in her room in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the alleged perpetrator directly moved to the room in which she had been sleeping after their separation and allegedly wasted the acid on her entire body.
The victim disclosed that though she could not move, she could clearly recognize the perpetrator to be her ex-lover, Momo Kenneh. After a day or two at the Liberian Government Hospital in Tubmanburg, the victim Sheriff was later forwarded to the J.F.K Memorial Hospital in Monrovia where she succumbed to death two weeks later.
But in reaction to the court’s final ruling, the family of the victim expressed serious dissatisfaction with the ruling, thus terming it as an unfair judgement. Speaking in a facial and frustrating tone, the spokesperson of the late Watta Sheriff family, Siaka Domah explained that with the everlasting agony the defendant caused to the family, it is unfair to see him being sentenced for just ten years. He believes that with the two crimes, the perpetrator was adjudged guilty of, the family expected nothing but a life sentence.
