River Cess County – A court in River Cess County has sentenced for 50 years, a 43-year-old man, Saah Bundor, in a double rape offense committed against two female minors ages 9 and 11 respectively.
The 14th Judicial Circuit Court for River Cess County sentenced the 43-year-old for statutory rape, following a jury’s unanimous guilty verdict handed down on 27 June, adjudging Bundor culpable for raping two minors (names withheld) by turn in one day, at the same spot.
Rural Reporters News Network (RRNN) has reliably gathered that the double rape occurred 24 May 2025, in Solo Village, Bearwor Administrative District, River Cess County.
While announcing the 50-year sentence, Assigned Circuit Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh termed Bundor’s action to have committed double rape against the minors, as being callous.
Court records seen by RRNN, revealed that the two rape survivors encountered Bundor on the fateful day in a nearby bush where they had gone to defecate.
Bundor, according to court records, then took turn to have sexual intercourse with the minors, following which he reportedly offered the girls LRD1,000, in an attempt to buy their silence.
However, in spite of Bundor’s attempt to have bought the rape survivors’ silence, the minors reported his sexual abuse perpetrated against them, leading to Bundor’s arrest the following day.
During the trial, prosecuting lawyers provided nine witnesses including the two rape survivors, their parents, a registered nurse, a police investigator, and some members of the community.
Howbeit, Bundor denied the charges, claiming he saw the girls while heading to the bush at the time he was experiencing stomach ache, indicating that he did not interact with the minors beyond that.
Bundor also denied assertions by prosecution lawyers accusing him of engaging in flight, adding that he only went into hiding after community members began threatening him over the double rape incidence.
Despite Bundor’s denials, the court found his testimony unconvincing; terming same as lacking corroboration and being conflicted with overwhelming physical and testimonial evidence.
Judge Wesseh, in upholding the jury’s verdict, used as his reliance few opinions of the Supreme Court, emphasizing the importance of corroborated evidence, while indicating that the rape survivors’ accounts were consistent, credible, and supported by both eyewitnesses and medical reports.
He observed that the double rape case presented clear and compelling proof beyond reasonable doubt that Bundor committed first-degree statutory rape.
RRNN observed that even though by law, the penalty for first-degree rape is life imprisonment, Judge Wesseh settled for a 50-year sentence for 43-year-old Bundor instead.
