Low vision woman turned sex slave in Bong

A local organization here says it is planning to transfer a 37 – year – old low vision woman and her three children to Monrovia over reports that she has be used as sex slave by unidentified men in Bong County.

The Hope in God Association of the Blind (HIGAB) told reporters that the woman and her children sleep from one place to another in Gbondwah Village of Bong County because no one is willing to cater to them.

The group says the woman is compelled to do domestic work for people for she and her children’s survival. The Financial Secretary of the organization Mr. Mulbah D. Sackie says because of the pathetic condition of the woman and her three children, the organization is planning to bring them to Monrovia where they will be cared for and provided education.

According to Sackie, the woman has continuously been raped and impregnated by unknown men, saying her family members to abandon her in Gbondwah Village.
He says the woman was discovered by the organization during an assessment mission to the county.

According to Sackie, the victim pounds rice and wash clothes for people in the village as a means of getting money to provide food for she and her three children.
Meanwhile, the administrative head of HIGAB Mr. Johnson K. Dorbor says this is the second incident involving women living under pathetic conditions.

He cites an eight year – old blind girl who was the first victim.Mr. Dorbor says in 2011 there was another pathetic scene where an abandoned woman gave birth in the kitchen and was later rescued and brought at HIGAB headquarters in Monrovia.

By Emmanuel Mondaye–Edited by Winston W. Parley