Preface

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1. Fatou Dembajang- 4 years
2. Adama Dembajang- 2 years
3. Awa Dembajang- 2 years
The plaintiff in answer to the courts question said he lives in Bonto. The
compound is not his own but he has obtained a shop there. He has his compound in
Bonto Village where his younger brother stays. His mother stays in Jarra Suma.
The court asked the plaintiff whether he could take care of the children since he is
not living in his personal house.
The plaintiff answered by saying that he will take the children to his mother
in Jarra and his sisters in Bonto and Serrekunda. The Court further asked the
plaintiff whether he tried to convince the defendant to revert to Islam. He said he
tried so many times but could not succeed. He could not send anybody to her
parents because they were not happy with their daughter’s conversion to Islam.
Having heard from the plaintiff, the court turned to the defendant for her response.
Isatou/Silva, the defendant said she heard all what the plaintiff had said. She said
she was a Christian and accepted Islam on the 23 rd of December 2005. She was
then four months pregnant with Fatou. Baba Dembajang was responsible for the
pregnancy. Fatou was a child born out of wedlock because she was born four
months after our marriage. Our problems with Baba started when I gave my
mother Fatou to look after her. I accepted Islam because of Baba- the plaintiff
when I was already four months pregnant. He was so eager to marry me I therefore
converted to Islam. Baba later maltreated me a lot. I asked him to renovate his
house for us to transfer there but he refused. On 25 th December 2010, I decided to
go back to my religion which is Christianity.
The plaintiff accused me of taking my children to the Church; the truth is
when I converted to Christianity and decided to go to church there was nobody in