Liberia: Teen Testifies NSA Agent Peter Bon Jallah Sexually Assaulted Him

What the report says

A trial in Monrovia heard testimony from a 16-year-old boy who said National Security Agency agent Peter Bon Jallah sexually assaulted him three times over a little more than a month, according to The Liberian Investigator as distributed by AllAfrica. The court also admitted the boy’s four-page police statement into evidence after rejecting a defense challenge to its use.

The witness placed two of the alleged incidents at Jallah’s residence on Nov. 29 and Dec. 24, 2025, and said a third took place on Jan. 1, 2026, at a four-story building on Camp Johnson Road. He told the court he knew Jallah and described being picked up after a football game, taken by vehicle to other locations, and later left near 15th Street, opposite NASSCORP, before a security officer found him and contacted relatives.

According to the testimony, the boy was taken first to John F. Kennedy Medical Center and later to a one-stop center, where police and medical staff recorded his account. Prosecutors then introduced the written statement, which the witness identified as his own. Defense lawyers objected to the statement’s admission and to several questions during testimony, but the judge overruled the key evidentiary objection.

The article says Jallah remains presumed innocent unless prosecutors prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. More broadly, the report reflects the handling of a serious sexual-assault allegation involving a state security official, with the court now having both live testimony and the victim’s recorded statement on the record.