MONROVIA, Jan. 30 -- Thirteen-year-old Sarah Andrews, not her real name, was allegedly raped by Mr. Amos Gono, an influential man in the Johnsonville Kpelleh Town Community in which a street is named after, called Gono Street.

By Mae Azangomae.azango@frontpageafricaonline.com

According to a community source, who does not want to be named, Mr. Gono, a friend of Sarah's uncle, was in the process of compromising the case because he and the alleged perpetrator's strong ethnic connections. And the family of Mr. Gono had been visiting the girl's uncle to compromise the case, which was never reported to the police by the uncle.

He further said when the news from the hospital confirmed that the survivor was constantly raped and sodomized, the ...