Richards, an American Missionary with the Creekside Church, met Jessica at the Disciples Training Bible College in Marshall and asked her to be his second wife.
Even though Jessica knew Richards was married, she said she agreed to become his second wife because she felt sorry for him since he and his wife could not have children."He said she did not have a problem with us getting married," Jessica said, though also she said Lucas never introduced her to Mrs. Richards as an incoming second wife, only as one of his students from the Bible College.
Traditional weddings in Liberia are different from Christian weddings in that, while both are legal, the former allows the man to marry more than one wife. Jessica says Richards knew that, by Liberian law, he could not marry another woman in a church, which is why he decided on a traditional wedding.When Jessica found out that he was pregnant, she was excited knowing that she would be finally able to fulfill Richards' dream of becoming a father.
"We drove some more, and he saw a graveyard and wanted us to stop there to look at the graves. But I told him no," she explained."That was how we got to the Palm Farm area and he stopped the car and said he heard a sound underneath the car. He asked me to get down and help him with the tire." "I had to move from where I was living because it got to a point where people almost broke down the door to our house. So I had to stop going to school and the job I was doing to earn a little money for myself, I had to stop. Even where I live now, it's hard for me to come outside because I have been warned by people close to me that my life is at stake. It can embarrass me. I don't go around friends anymore because I feel that can use those same friends to harm me," he said.
Responding, the legal counsel for the family said:"We can't talk outside of the law. What I would want to talk on their own behalf before they can even go and talk about it as a family, is that, I agree when he goes to jail, maybe for a certain length of time - whatever sentence that the judge decides, they will not get anything in return. But you and I also know that if the family decides to go for the damages that he has caused the entire family and even her ...
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