{"id":27998,"date":"2026-02-27T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=27998"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:12:34","slug":"killing-grandchildren-did-not-disappear-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/killing-grandchildren-did-not-disappear-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading! Woman accused of killing grandchildren did not disappear from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: <\/strong>Mary Giah, who is accused of murdering her three grandchildren, has reportedly escaped through black magic from the police station in Nimba, according to an online blog post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict: <\/strong>Misleading. <\/strong>The LNP spokesperson said the woman did not go missing from the prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Social media was flooded days ago with reports that a 61-year-old  woman had allegedly killed her three grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to this, the Liberia National Police issued a statement<\/a> saying they had arrested the woman and that she was in police custody pending court trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Days after the incident, an online blog named Yekeh Kolubah posted<\/a> that the \u201cGrandmother Mary Giah, who murdered her three grandchildren, has reportedly escaped (disappeared) through black magic from the police station in Nimba.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of the time of this publication, the post gained over 2.1k reactions, 100 shares, and over 500 comments, many of which commended the woman for escaping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes after that post, the same blog made another post with a video<\/a>, which has an unclear sound with a caption suggesting that the police contacted a juju man who helped to rearrest the suspect and put her back in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video got over 39.6K views, 929 reactions, 204 comments, and 97 shares as of the time of this report. To promote truth in the information ecosystem, DUBAWA verified the blog\u2019s post. There were two issues in contention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the researcher sought to determine whether the suspect truly vanished from prison custody; second, she sought to determine whether the suspect had been rearrested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA contacted the spokesperson of the Liberia National Police (LNP) to ascertain if the woman had escaped from the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, Sam Collins<\/a> said, \u201cNo, no, no. She did not disappear. It is untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if the police did use black powers to rearrest her, Collins laughed and asked, the woman did not escape. How will we rearrest her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not in our line of work to use juju power,\u201d adding, \u201cthe police did not use black powers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also shared a video with DUBAWA, similar to the one Yekeh Kolubah posted, and said it was proof that she is still in police custody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the seven-minute video, the recorder is clearly heard saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere is the woman. She has not disappeared yet. If she will, then I don\u2019t think it will be in police custody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yekeh Kolubah\u2019s post that the woman who is accused of killing her three grandchildren disappeared from prison is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: Mary Giah, who is accused of murdering her three grandchildren, has reportedly escaped through black magic from the police station in Nimba, according to an online blog post.  Verdict: Misleading. The LNP spokesperson said the woman did not go missing from the prison.  Full Text Social media was flooded days ago with reports that a 61-year-old  woman had allegedly killed her three grandchildren. Fast forward to this, the Liberia National Police issued a statement saying they had arrested the woman and that she was in police custody pending court trial. Days after the incident, an online blog named Yekeh Kolubah posted that the \u201cGrandmother Mary Giah, who murdered her three grandchildren, has reportedly escaped (disappeared) through black magic from the police station in Nimba.\u201d As of the time of this publication, the post gained over 2.1k reactions, 100 shares, and over 500 comments, many of which commended the woman for escaping.  A few minutes after that post, the same blog made another post with a video, which has an unclear sound with a caption suggesting that the police contacted a juju man who helped to rearrest the suspect and put her back in jail. The video got over 39.6K views, 929 reactions, 204 comments, and 97 shares as of the time of this report. To promote truth in the information ecosystem, DUBAWA verified the blog\u2019s post. There were two issues in contention.  First, the researcher sought to determine whether the suspect truly vanished from prison custody; second, she sought to determine whether the suspect had been rearrested.  Verification  DUBAWA contacted the spokesperson of the Liberia National Police (LNP) to ascertain if the woman had escaped from the prison. In response, Sam Collins said, \u201cNo, no, no. She did not disappear. It is untrue.\u201d When asked if the police did use black powers to rearrest her, Collins laughed and asked, the woman did not escape. How will we rearrest her? \u201cIt is not in our line of work to use juju power,\u201d adding, \u201cthe police did not use black powers.\u201d He also shared a video with DUBAWA, similar to the one Yekeh Kolubah posted, and said it was proof that she is still in police custody.  In the seven-minute video, the recorder is clearly heard saying, \u201cHere is the woman. She has not disappeared yet. If she will, then I don\u2019t think it will be in police custody.\u201d Conclusion  Yekeh Kolubah\u2019s post that the woman who is accused of killing her three grandchildren disappeared from prison is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"default","_google_business_share_type":"default","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,3812,3815,1960],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[4340],"class_list":["post-27998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-liberia"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-7hA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4340,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"gloria-wleh-1","display_name":"Gloria Wleh","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-1.07.38-PM.png?fit=514%2C507&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28000,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions\/28000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=27998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}