Thursday , March 28 2024

FARMER JAILED 25 YEARS FOR DEFILEMENT.

A farmer based at Enchi in the Aowin district, Kwame Kumah, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by a circuit court in Tarkwah for defiling and impregnating a fourteen-year-old girl.

Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Juliana Essel- Dadzie told the court that the victim lived with her mother at old Yakasi.

According to the (ASP) Dadzie, the farmer together with his friend Mensah, were involved in the case. Mensah who live in the same community is on the run.

(ASP) Dadzie said Kumah’s wife who is a sister to the victim’s mother pleaded with her sister to allow the victim help her in the house, which she agreed.

She stated that, the farmer lured the victim many times into an uncompleted building and sexually abuse her. The victim later ended up pregnant.

The prosecutor said , after knowing the truth, the farmer asked his friend Mensah to send the victim to his girlfriend’s apartment.

She said Mensah accepted to help and he also took advantage of the situation and had sexual intercourse with the victim.

She said the victim informed the complaint who reported the case to the police at Enchi.

The Prosecutor said Kumah was arrested, although he pleaded guilty to the offense, he was jailed after the trial.

(ASP) Dadzie said Mensah is however on the run.

Source: Ghanaweb.

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