Farmer jailed 15 years for defilement

A Tarkwa Circuit Court on Friday sentenced Kwame Abass, a 21 year-old farmer, to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a four year-old girl.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court presided over by Mr. Justice Kwame Ohene-Essel that the complainant, Madam Faustina Mensah, a trader, lived in the same vicinity with the accused at Wassa Asikumah.

He said on August 25, this year, the victim went to the aunt’s room to watch television and later went out to urinate around 2230 hours.

Chief Inspector Amponsah said the convict took advantage of the victim’s loneliness and lured her into his room and defiled her.

After the act, the victim who could not endure the pain started crying and narrated her ordeal to her mother, he said.

Chief Inspector Amponsah said the mother raised an alarm and Abass was arrested by some sympathizers around and sent to the Police Station.

He said the mother took the victim, who was bleeding to the Police Station and she was issued with a medical form for treatment at the hospital and report back.

Chief Inspector Amponsah said the Medical Officer at the Wassa Akropong government hospital, Dr. Frederick Yaw Sarpong, who examined the victim, confirmed that she has been defiled.