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.