Teenage Girl with a bloody face turns out to be a Drug Dealer

By Lagi Keresoma/

Apia, SAMOA – 28 March 2024:  A young girl with a bloody face and body bruises immediately earned the sympathy of two women who helped her get medical attention.

The girl approached the two women sitting on the seawall across from the Samoa Fire & Emergency Services (SFESA) on Tuesday evening and asked for money so she could go to the hospital. It was already dark.

One of the women told her off, however, she continued to ask for money and said she was beaten up while she was on her way to deliver food for her dad who works as a night watchman.

Asked how old she was she said 15.

One of the women took a photo of the young girl and noted blood on her forehead, and there were bruises on her hands, mouth and head.

She told the women that she went to the police office but received no help then walked out and saw them.

The women then took the injured girl to SFESA for help and the workers on duty took her to the hospital.

Part of the Apia waterfront seawall looking towards the Government Building.

Later, the women found out that the young girl whom they helped was a drug dealer and suspected that she must have been beaten by her own colleagues.

The women later called a senior Police officer and explained about the young girl.

On Wednesday morning, the police officer told the women the history of the young woman.

The young girl is actually19 years old.

She was recently detained with 8 other people in a police raid at Malifa and she is suspected to be involved in a group of young people used by drug dealers to push drugs.

She told the police the same story she told the women who helped her that she was on her way to take food for her father who was a watchman at a shop in town when a man and woman attached her and took everything.

After she was treated at the hospital, she was taken into the police station for further questioning.

According to police, there are a lot of young people now involved in pushing illegal drugs and they welcome any information they could get to assist their search for the key players in the growing illegal drug trade.