When the case came up two years later, on June 7, the revised charge sheet omitted the names of key people caught up in the Penny Appeal scandal.

The new judge assigned to the case, Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, was dismayed and frustrated at the lack of progress and warned the police that he was not going to tolerate their ‘games’. The new state prosecutor, Patrick Gomez, displayed no less frustration.

In this election investigation series, Malagen returns to the Penny Appeal case, a story of years of abuse and exploitation of hundreds of orphans under the care of orphanages that do not have a legal permit to operate one.

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