By Patrick N. Mensah, Maryland.
Police in Harper City, Maryland County have arrested and incarcerated three teenagers for allegedly digging out a human skull from a grave.
The three suspects are identified as Alphonso Nevis, aged 14, George Satia, aged 14, and Hilary Prowd, aged 16.
They were arrested by the Hoffman Station’s Community Watch Forum in the Hoffman Station Township for allegedly digging a grave and removing a human skull in Harper City, Maryland County Electoral District #1.
They were taken to the Commissioner of the Hoffman Station Township and later turned over to the Liberian National Police (LNP) for further interrogation.
While at the Harper police station, the three suspects narrated that the act was allegedly done not for any rituals.
They claimed it was intended to have scared some of their friends in the community.
According to suspect George Satia, they were eating on Friday, 5 May 2023 when he conceived the idea and he shared his thought with his co-suspects.
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Accordingly, they allegedly visited a graveyard and dug the skull in question. Satia claimed that they placed the skull at the back of their bathroom.
During the morning hours, he alleged, one of his co-suspects took the skull and used it to run behind other children in the yard in an attempt to frighten them.
Satia admitted that it wasn’t a good thing to have removed the skull from the grave, but they intended to scare the young ones and their friends in the community.
“Let me explain this, we were eating on Friday night when this bad mindset came to me,” he explained.
“So I explained it to my friends and they [bought] the idea because we just wanted to scare people, but never knew it would have reached this far,” he said further.
The three suspects pleaded for mercy, stressing that their action wasn’t intended for anything different, but just to scare their friends in the community.
For his part, commissioner Prowd of the Hoffman Station Township said the action of the teenagers is not only worrisome but discouraging.
He wondered why on earth children at that age would even think of going to a gravesite to remove a skull of a dead body.
“Well, they have explained their side, but we hope that the Liberia National Police will make sure they explain the real motivates behind their actions,” the Commissioner said.
He noted that Liberia is a country of law, and his township respects the law.
“And that’s why we have called the police, but we want those suspects properly investigated to serve as a warning to the others,” he added.
The Hoffman Station Commissioner maintained that the situation is a first of its kind, and it has brought fear to residents of the township.
He however called on the community dwellers not to panic because the police will handle the matter properly.
Meanwhile, parents of teenagers are appealing for mercy, saying it’s strange to have seen their children in such habits.
“We are surprised because such [an] act has not been shown by any of them so what got into their minds?” one of the parents said.
Some sources within the community alleged that disadvantaged youths or Zogoes are normally seen in some grave sites extracting human bones which they allegedly prepare as harmful substances for smoking.
But police are investigating the matter and they are yet to come up with the actual reason behind the action of the three teenagers.
