Ex-NSA Staffer Peter Bon Jallah Gets 50 Years for Rape, Kidnapping of Boy

Published: November 3, 2026

MONROVIA — Former National Security Agency staff member Peter Bon Jallah will serve 50 years in prison for the statutory rape and kidnapping of a 16-year-old boy, after Criminal Court ‘E’ for Montserrado County sentenced him on Tuesday.

Assigned Circuit Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh Sr. convicted Bon Jallah, 63, of both charges on Oct. 23 after a bench trial, which Bon Jallah chose over a jury. The judge acquitted him of gang rape, ruling that the prosecution had not produced enough evidence to sustain that charge.

The court sentenced him after denying a defense motion for a new trial. In that motion, Bon Jallah’s lawyers challenged the medical and forensic evidence and argued that the prosecution had not established the essential elements of statutory rape.

According to the indictment, the boy regularly ran errands and did domestic work for pay at Bon Jallah’s home in Sinkor. Prosecutors said Bon Jallah used that relationship to sexually abuse him at the home on Nov. 29 and Dec. 24, 2025.

Prosecutors said that on Jan. 1, 2026, Bon Jallah promised to buy the boy football boots and drove him to a building in the Camp Johnson Road area of central Monrovia, where he was held for three days. The indictment also alleged that the boy was abused there by two unidentified men. The court did not sustain the gang rape charge that rested on that allegation.

The indictment said the boy was left in Sinkor on the night of Jan. 3. Private security guards found him and contacted his family, who took him for a medical examination.

Bon Jallah was arrested Jan. 7, 2026, after a complaint to the police Women and Children Protection Section. A grand jury indicted him and two unidentified men during the February 2026 term of court on charges of statutory rape, gang rape and kidnapping. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment June 18.

The prosecution called 13 witnesses and six rebuttal witnesses, including the boy and police officers. The defense called eight witnesses, including Bon Jallah, and subpoenaed witnesses from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Orange Liberia and the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.