Nursing notes record injuries at Peter Bon Jallah trial
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The Liberian Investigator
At the trial of Peter Bon Jallah, a former Liberian National Security Agency official accused, among other charges, of raping a 16-year-old boy, nursing notes record pain, injuries and HIV-prevention treatment. These details differ from a medical report filed by the defence on 15 October, according to The Liberian Investigator.
At the trial of Peter Bon Jallah, a former official of Liberia’s National Security Agency, nursing notes from JFK Hospital describe pain and injuries suffered by a 16-year-old boy. The Liberian Investigator reports that the teenager could not sit when he arrived and that a nurse testified she had seen lacerations and bruising around his anus.
These accounts contrast with the three-page medical report filed by the defence on 15 October. Dated 4 March 2026, the document says an examination under anaesthesia found no sign of anal trauma, with an intact rectal lining and no tears observed. The nursing notes say the boy received opioids for pain and medication to prevent HIV. He spent several weeks in the trauma unit before going home, then returned to hospital because of persistent pain.
Peter Bon Jallah, 63, is on trial before Criminal Court E at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia on charges of gang rape, statutory rape and kidnapping. He has pleaded not guilty and chosen a bench trial, in which Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh Sr. will deliver the verdict. He was arrested on 7 January after being removed from his post. Two other men have been indicted in absentia.
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