{"id":19901,"date":"2022-08-03T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted"},"modified":"2022-08-03T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:01:57","slug":"medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted","title":{"rendered":"Medical doctor confirms rape victim was sexually assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bruce Asemota<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>One Dr Ramatoulie Drammeh of Kanifing General Hospital has told the High Court that a fourteen-year-old girl in the criminal trial of one Foday Touray was indeed sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Touray is charged with rape and indecent assault. The witness indicated that she conducted medical examination on the victim and prepared a medical certificate after discovering that the hymen of the victim was absent.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rahmatoulie confirmed penetration but no laceration on the victim\u2019s private parts. She explained that various factors cause loss of hymen but noted that some women are born without it.<\/p>\n<p>The victim in her testimony had told the court that she met the accused in August 2019 who asked her to follow him to his house where he proceeded to have sexual intercourse with her against her will.<\/p>\n<p>The victim further testified that again in November 2019, the accused came to her house and led her into her mother\u2019s room and when he began to undress her, her father walked into the room.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Asemota Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. One Dr Ramatoulie Drammeh of Kanifing General Hospital has told the High Court that a fourteen-year-old girl in the criminal trial of one Foday Touray was indeed sexually assaulted. Touray is charged with rape and indecent assault. The witness indicated that she conducted medical examination on the victim and prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[2355,2361,3697,260,7788],"class_list":["post-19901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-doctor","tag-gambia","tag-sexually-assaulted"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medical doctor confirms rape victim was sexually assaulted - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One Dr Ramatoulie Drammeh of Kanifing General Hospital has told the High Court that a fourteen-year-old girl in the crim ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medical doctor confirms rape victim was sexually assaulted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One Dr Ramatoulie Drammeh of Kanifing General Hospital has told the High Court that a fourteen-year-old girl in the crim ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-03T19:42:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-03T20:01:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_4-62ead41974bd6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1401\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1050\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Medical doctor confirms rape victim was sexually assaulted\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-03T19:42:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-03T20:01:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_4-62ead41974bd6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Doctor\",\"Gambia\",\"sexually assaulted\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/medical-doctor-confirms-rape-victim-was-sexually-assaulted\",\"name\":\"Medical doctor confirms rape victim was sexually assaulted - 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