child sex abuse

Senior Justice Vui Clarence Nelson
Apia, SAMOA — A Supreme Court Senior Justice in Samoa has decried the continued increase in sexual offences targeting young children, despite efforts to increase court-imposed penalties for offenders. Senior Justice Vui Clarence Nelson was commenting as he sentenced a 20-year-old man to 12 years in...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing a 8-year-old girl was arrested by police last week. He made his initial appearance in District Court. (Samoa News has withheld the names involved in the case to protect the victim in this case.) He is charged with first degree sexual...