[ 2014-07-23 ]

Three police officers, civilian defile 14-yr old girl
Three police officers have been remanded by a Wa
circuit court to reappear on July 31, 2014 for
allegedly abducting and defiling a 14-year old
Primary Six pupil in the Wa municipality of the
Upper West region.

The three police men who are alleged to have
committed the act together with a civilian who is
currently at large are said to have held the
teenager between June 30 and July 5, 2014.

More surprisingly, one of them had unprotected sex
with the girl at the municipal commander’s
office.

Prosecuting the case, DSP Owusu Bempah told the
court that the complainant who is the biological
father of the victim took her to the grandmother
at Wa Zongo to spend some holidays with her since
their school was on midterm break.

On June 22, 2014 the complainant went to pick his
daughter from the grandmother for her to prepare
for school the following morning and she was
nowhere to be found.

The complainant was then hinted by one of the
victim’s cousin whose name was only given as
Sharika that she suspects that the victim might
have been with the first accused.

Sharika then led the complainant to the house of
the first accused but met neither the accused nor
the victim.

DSP Owusu Bempah said the complainant and his
family members continued to search for the victim
and on the June 23, the victim’s uncle Felix
Sibiri saw the victim with the first accused.

When the first accused saw the victim’s uncle he
took his heels leaving the victim.

Felix Sibiri sent the victim to the
grandmother’s place and during interview she
confessed that she was with the first accused for
four days and that the she had unprotected sex
with him twice.

On June 24, 2014 the complainant together with the
victim lodged a formal complaint against the
accused.

Whilst efforts were made to apprehend the accused,
the victim left the house around9:40pm and
proceeded to meet the second accused Donald Appiah
who took her to his house at Kpongu at the
outskirts of Wa and had unprotected sex with her
twice within the three days of her stay there.

At about 11am on her third day, the third accused
George Tannoh visited his friend, the second
accused. Tannoh gave out his motorbike to send the
victim to her house at Wa Zongo but the third
accused rather took the victim to his house at the
Wa main police barracks and had unprotected sexual
intercourse with her.

The victim passed the night at the third accused
room and left the following morning but failed to
go home.

On the July 5 2014 the victim decided to visit the
third accused again but met his absence. On her
return she was called by the fourth accused Joseph
Kwakor at the police canteen. The fourth accused
asked her to stand by his car and she obliged.

He then went in to the Charge Office for the key
to the Wa Municipal commander’s office, lured
the victim to the office, had unprotected sex with
her after which gave her 10 Ghana Cedis.

DSP Bempah concluded that the father and
complainant reported to the police later in the
night that the victim was found loitering around
the Wa polytechnic road.

The police went there, saw the victim, and
escorted her to the police station. Upon
investigation she mentioned the four accused
persons as the people she was with between June 30
and July 5, 2014.

With the first accused now at large, the second
accused pleaded guilty whilst the third and fourth
accused persons pleaded not guilty.

The Wa Circuit Court judge, His Honour, Isaac
Bright Akwantey had no option than to remand the
trio to reappear on July 31, 2014.

But for the second accused Donald Appiah he will
be coming for pronouncement of verdict on his
guilty plea entered at the court.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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