Charles Taylor’s Ex-Wife Denies Plotting Torture And Rape Of Liberians

By Sebastian Murphy-bates (For Mailonline)

A former head of department at Coventry University today denied torturing children and tying up a mother so she could witness her two children being shot. The ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, Agnes Taylor, faces eight torture charges.

*Dr. Agnes Taylor 

The 52-year-old is also accused of conspiring to use rape to torture women during the west African country’s civil war in 1990. Taylor, a former university lecturer, is said to have tortured one child victim by having them tied to a tree then witness the shooting of others.