Mother Jailed in Samoa for Infanticide Case
A woman has been jailed for ten years for flushing her newborn baby down a toilet in 2015. Vesi Enele, in her 20s opted to plead guilty to a charge of murder rather than go through a ...Read more
A woman has been jailed for ten years for flushing her newborn baby down a toilet in 2015. Vesi Enele, in her 20s opted to plead guilty to a charge of murder rather than go through a ...Read more
A man with several previous public peace disturbance convictions has been told the only person who can help him now is himself. Fasia Fetuao has been in and out of the court and the Territorial ...Read more
A man from Samoa, Muaiga Siatiu, changed his plea to guilty at a hearing in the High Court on Friday Initially charged with four felony counts of child molestation, sodomy , deviate sexual assault ...Read more
Loimata Mika pleaded guilty today to second degree burglary in connection with an incident last year in Aua. The defendant faced charges of first degree burglary, 3rd degree assault and ...Read more
The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation is receiving $400,000 from a court-ordered community service payment from Pacific Breeze Fisheries, for violations of illegally dumping oil from one its ...Read more
A man was sentenced yesterday for going overboard in disciplining his daughter. The man whose name we’re withholding to protect the identity of his juvenile daughter, pled guilty to private ...Read more
A man is spending four months in jail for beating up his girlfriend. Martin Sega faced third degree assault and public peace disturbance but pled guilty to assault and the ppd count was ...Read more
District Court Judge Fiti Sunia denied a plea agreement for a man who was charged with assault third degree and public peace disturbance involving his girlfriend. The prosecution and defense had a ...Read more
A man has pled guilty to assaulting his wife after she found out he was sending messages to other women on Facebook. When police arrived at the couple’s home in Iliili they saw a bruise on the ...Read more
On Friday the government offered a plea agreement which was accepted by the defendant in hopes of a lighter sentence. Ivale Vanuvanu was charged with public peace disturbance and assault in the ...Read more