The naked bruised body of Fatu Togba, 17, was found near an unfinished building on August 27. No one could confirm what had happened but residents alleged she was raped and murdered.
The body was seen at the back of the Liberia National Police depot at about 11 PM but there was no family contact. The police later quarantined the area while the body stayed a day before it was removed.
Sylvester Togba, the father of the deceased, was later informed by a family friend who had identified the body.
Born June 16, 2002, Fatu lived with her mother and aunties in Gbarpolu, and at times with father in Caldwell. She was later entrusted to her maternal aunties and father before her mother’s death in 2016.
“I remember on her mother’s death bed she asked me to take responsibility of our daughter, with what has happened now I don’t know what to say,” said Togba.
Fatu was an eighth grade student of Pamela Kay – a school 10 minutes’ walk away from where her body was discovered.
Mr. Togba narrated that Fatu left their home unknown to everyone on June 16 on her birthday and returned on June 30.
“I went to work when I came home, I didn’t see her, everyone saw her in the yard but she left without telling anyone. We couldn’t locate her; we tried her number it was off, calls were made to her friends and families to know her whereabouts but we still couldn’t find her,” he said.
In late June, Fatu phoned her eldest sister and said she was in Gbarpolu with her aunt but then someone had spotted her in Banjor and informed Mr.Togba.
According to him, he went looking for her but she sneaked in the house on a graduation day and the entire house was overwhelmed by her return.
Fatu again left the house on June 30, sneaking through the backdoor of the house.
Mr. Togba said he did not see his daughter from July 1 until her body was discovered in Virginia.
Source: FPA
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