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Defendant Ioane Sio Paterika outside the court
Apia, SAMOA — Assessors have returned with a guilty verdict in the Supreme Court of Samoa for an ex-husband charged with two counts of rape, after he pleaded guilty to charges of assault. The 2-day hearing focused on the rape charges denied by Ioane Sio Paterika, who openly testified in Court about...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A married man who left his wife and then allegedly had an affair with a 16-year-old girl was arrested by police last week pursuant to an arrest warrant from the court. Moreover, the mother of the alleged victim allowed the affair to continue after she was unable to stop...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A grandfather was arrested by police last week pursuant to an arrest warrant alleging  that he raped his granddaughter last year. The 15-year-old girl told investigators that she was allegedly raped by a man from Nu’uuli, which is why she decided to run away from her...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An alleged sexual relationship between two high school students resulted with a young man being arrested and charged with more than 20 criminal charges, after the mother of the girl reported to authorities that her 15-year-old daughter is pregnant as a result of the...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 47-year-old uncle accused of raping his 16-year-old niece was arrested last week and is now in custody. He made his initial appearance before the Court two weeks ago. When arrested by police, illegal drugs were discovered in the defendant’s possession. The government...
American Samoa High Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA  — Police arrested an 18-year-old young man last week accused of sexually abusing his two younger sisters and he’s now being charged. The two victims are aged 10 and 15, and both lived in the same house with the suspect during the time of the alleged offenses. According to...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 36-year-old man was arrested and has been charged with the rape on several occasions of a 14-year-old girl beginning in 2018. The man made his initial appearance in Court last week where he requested a preliminary examination (PX). (While his name is in court documents...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The preliminary examination (PX) for a 20-year-old man from Samoa charged for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl is now bound over to High Court after District Court Pro Tem, Gwen Tauiliili-Langkilde was satisfied that the evidence presented by the...
Tialavea Tionisio Hunt
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Minister of Police and Prisons says he wants to bring back corporal punishment for rapists. Tialavea Tionisio Hunt told the Samoa Observer newspaper he was sickened by incidents of rape and sexual abuse against women and children. He said corporal punishment would serve as a...
American Samoa District Court building
ago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 37-year-old man from Samoa accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female for a period of 3 months is now in custody after he was arrested by police last week pursuant to an arrest warrant from the court. The defendant made his initial appearance in...

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