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ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- A second child whom Maryland rape suspect Mahamu Kanneh was accused of molesting was 18 months old, according to case documents uncovered Tuesday.
Kanneh was indicted in December 2005 on nine counts of rape, sex abuse and child abuse related to allegations involving Kanneh's two nieces. But 2 1/2 years later — last Tuesday — a judge dismissed his case on the grounds that his rights to a speedy trial had been violated.
The case was complicated further because Kanneh spoke a Liberian dialect, Vai. He also spoke English, but a court-appointed psychologist who interviewed him recommended that Kanneh should have an interpreter, and the court agreed. However, interpreters were hard to come by:
Posted by tyne at July 24, 2007