The jury had earlier found Wiehn guilty of the commission of the crime statutory rape for which the government charged him. Minutes after Johnson’s judgment, a female prosecutor who spoke with judicial reporters explained that prosecuting people accused of rape was very much challenging. To get Eliza to testify against her husband was “very difficult, knowing it meant that she was destroying their marriage. “It was their housemate who reported the matter to the police before the defendant was arrested and subsequently indicted with statutory rape,” Atty. “We have about 300 cases on trial docket for rape awaiting trial, but with one court assigned with a judge it’s difficult to fight against rape.

Source: Daily Observer February 06, 2017 01:53 UTC