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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 03 Apr 2007 : 15:12:23
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GIRL, 16, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE DUE TO FORCED MARRIAGE
By Lamin Fatty
A report reaching Foroyaa has it that, one Mama Danso, a 16 year old girl of Basse Kaba Kama, attempted to take her own life by consuming a solution of the powdered mixture of the black substance found in radio batteries. The girl was said to have attempted to take her own life because of the decision of her parents to get her married to a man whom she does not love. According to a source at Basse Health Centre, the 16 year old, Mama Danso was discovered to have ingested a poison.
The source went on to say that the victim was unconscious as at the time she was brought and admitted. He said that gastric aspiration was done via nasogastric tube and the ingested poison was therefore drained. The nurse said that the patient was later referred to the Bansang Hospital for further treatment.
In an interview with the victim's mother, Rohey Trawally, she denied the allegation that the victim was forced into marriage. She said that every mother wants the progress of her daughter. She explained that she was at her vegetable garden during the time of the incident; that it was Mama's younger sister who came from the tap with a bucket full of water and then called the attention of the victim to help her get the bucket down but she did not respond. The mother said that that was the time the sister went close to her and then found a cup of water mixed with the black stuff from a battery cell. She then called the attention of the neighbours who quickly took her to Basse Health Centre. However, according to her, the victim was responding to treatment and that she had even talked with her on a mobile phone while she was at the Hospital in Bansang.
However, the victim's mother, Rohey Trawally, expressed disappointment over the daughter's reaction. Efforts to talk to the Alkalo of Kaba Kama, Fatou Danso, proved futile as she was said to be in her vegetable garden. Efforts to talk to the police in Basse and the P.R.O also bore naught.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 38/2007, 2-3 April 2007
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MADIBA
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Posted - 03 Apr 2007 : 17:02:03
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My God these Serahulehs never learn |
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