10 Girls Raped In Ghana Daily
Source:The Finder
February 6, 2013
Hardly a day goes by without a report on a child defilement case in the media, and according to child rights groups working on the issue, at least 10 girl ... read full comment
10 Girls Raped In Ghana Daily
Source:The Finder
February 6, 2013
Hardly a day goes by without a report on a child defilement case in the media, and according to child rights groups working on the issue, at least 10 girls under the age 16 are defiled every day in the country.
They say that even though the cases reported in themselves are alarming, they constitute only about 10% of such abuses, as the overwhelming majority of the cases are hushed.
The penalty for defilement was increased in the 1998 amendment to the Criminal Code (ACT 29) to a minimum of seven and a maximum of 25 years without an option of a fine. Yet recent studies show that sexual abuse of children in Ghana is still alarming high.
Figures from the then Ministry for Women and Children Affairs (MOWAC) put the annual case of reported defilement cases at around 800 a year, but according to one of the groups working to stop the practice, Light For Children Ghana, this is only a small portion of an alarming national catastrophe.
For this year alone, Ghana News Agency bulletins have been recording an average of about three defilement case a day.
The majority of the defilement cases are hushed, according to child psychologists, because in some case the victims do not understand what has happened to them or are afraid of being shamed or accused of being bad girls.
Some guardians also prefer to keep such incidence to themselves.
This is especially the case where the abusers happen to be family members. There have also been cases of neighbors, teachers, pastors and all sorts of people abusing girls some as young as two years.
There are also instances where guardians go to the police, but later stop following the case and give up because they find the processes cumbersome, studies indicate.
Making the situation worse, according to Mrs Juliana Azumah, the last Minister for MOWAC, was that the over 50,000 children living and working on the country’s streets were often taken advantage of by sexual predators or run to commercial sex as way of making a living.
Also in certain parts of the country such as in parts of the Upper West Region, for instance, Action Aid Ghana, reports that an average of 50 young girls below the ages of 15 and 17 are abducted for marriage every year in the Jirapa, Lambussie/Karni and Sissala East districts.
ROMANO 10 years ago
“What he did is just disgraceful and a person like him could not be allowed to be part of a religious institution because what he did goes against all that Christianity stands for. Some members were threatening to beat him ... read full comment
“What he did is just disgraceful and a person like him could not be allowed to be part of a religious institution because what he did goes against all that Christianity stands for. Some members were threatening to beat him up but they were restrained by the church elders.”The Pastor of Faith Ministries, a church in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South, has been expelled after her impregnated six married women who were members of his church.
Pastor Derek Ngulube was shown the red card by the church’s elders last month bringing to an end his reign of sexual terror. Pastor Ngulube is reported to have impregnated the six within a period of one year.
His antics were brought to light after a visiting Pastor prophesied that there was an elder within the church who is in the habit of bedding married women. After a ‘witch hunt’, it was established that Pastor Ngulube was the elder who had been fingered in the prophecy.
A source said on being questioned, Pastor Ngulube opened up and said he was indeed the one fingered in the prophecy. “He tried to deny the allegation but later came back to his senses and said he was the one in the prophecy,” said the source.
It is reported that Pastor Ngulube also revealed that all the women he had bedded fell pregnant. On hearing the news, the church’s elders were left with no choice but to expel him.
The source said that the husbands of the women that Ngulube claimed to have impregnated were summoned by the church’s elders and had the shameful news broken to them.
Contacted for comment, Pastor Ngulube said he was sorry. “I feel bad and I want to say I am very sorry for what I did. If I could be given another chance I wouldn’t repeat the mistake. I also welcome the punishment that the church leaders gave me.
NEMESIS ROCKET, UK 10 years ago
Woman duped by 'pastor' lover
General News of Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Source: Karim Hamza
Many have been victims of internet fraud which is popularly called “Sakawa” in Ghana. Most of these victims are usually lure ... read full comment
Woman duped by 'pastor' lover
General News of Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Source: Karim Hamza
Many have been victims of internet fraud which is popularly called “Sakawa” in Ghana. Most of these victims are usually lured with lucrative business proposals and sometimes offered the chance to choose a lifetime partner.
Whilst some of the victims muster courage to report to the security agencies for investigations to be conducted, others also prefer keeping their nightmarish experience to themselves.
Read below the ordeal of one Linda Austin, who was duped by a pastor lover, Steve Charway in Accra.
I have a personal touching story which I would like the world to read. I came to Ghana in July this year to marry a man named Steve Charway. He was supposed to be a Pentecostal Pastor in Accra. After I arrived, I found out that he had been lying to me all along, so I suggested we postpone the planned marriage.
I came home, but decided to return and marry him because I truly loved him. I was in the process when one Sylvester James Mensah told me to get a plane ticket and come back to Ghana and Steve and I would be married there.
So I planned to arrive on Sept 17, 2013 but four days before I was to leave, Steve disappeared so I called the Uncle (James) and was told that he had traveled to Northern Ghana for a religious study and would be back in four weeks. James asked me to buy him and Steve a cell phone and send them to him with $50.00.
He called again to request for additional $800.00 to enable Steve pay for his tuition fess so he could obtain his supposed Diploma in Theology certificate, which I complied. In fact, I have in my custody receipts covering all these transactions and I am prepared to release them as and when it becomes necessary.
All of a sudden, James called me one fateful day to tell me Steve had left the North for overseas, but could not tell me which country specifically.
In actual fact, it turned out to be a massive scam and Steve Charway, am told, is with a British woman called Jane. I was robbed and could not report to the Police at the time so I would plead with you (Ghanaweb.com) to publish this article to alert the public of the operations of these hoodlums.
They need to be exposed, so no one else gets hurt by them.
Best Regards
Linda Austin
??? 10 years ago
we are not here with women with wild p'ssy.the issue here is children,those who dosn't know the difference between black and blue.Dont you think this church women do beg the postors to sleep with them. i thought you are going ... read full comment
we are not here with women with wild p'ssy.the issue here is children,those who dosn't know the difference between black and blue.Dont you think this church women do beg the postors to sleep with them. i thought you are going to advice those so called pastors and others.
intelegent boy 10 years ago
leave this man alone and rather fight against arm robbering in the country. why should she even go to the hospital alone
leave this man alone and rather fight against arm robbering in the country. why should she even go to the hospital alone
TOGBE GANYO 10 years ago
YOU CALL YOURSELF INTERLEGENT BOY. BUT YOU ARE A RAPER. YOU SHOULD BE HANGED ALSO.
YOU CALL YOURSELF INTERLEGENT BOY. BUT YOU ARE A RAPER. YOU SHOULD BE HANGED ALSO.
Brandford 10 years ago
How can our women be protected from being harrased, beaten,sexually assult by our men.What law protect our women?
How can our women be protected from being harrased, beaten,sexually assult by our men.What law protect our women?
wicked Man 10 years ago
This fucken pastor need to hang so that he will not do to another young girl again. This has come out. The question is do you know how many girls he had been sexing them? Even he do to his own daughter, what about somebody's ... read full comment
This fucken pastor need to hang so that he will not do to another young girl again. This has come out. The question is do you know how many girls he had been sexing them? Even he do to his own daughter, what about somebody's child. he will even do to Six years girl. He is devil,
adam. 10 years ago
Should be kIlld.
Should be kIlld.
kpata 10 years ago
Send his black ass to jail
Send his black ass to jail
enyonam 10 years ago
very,very bad he must bare the punishment
very,very bad he must bare the punishment
Kumasehene 10 years ago
Pastor Kumi was practicing his culture, becaues the Asantes say Etwe Nye Baakofo Dea.
Pastor Kumi was practicing his culture, becaues the Asantes say Etwe Nye Baakofo Dea.
10 Girls Raped In Ghana Daily
Source:The Finder
February 6, 2013
Hardly a day goes by without a report on a child defilement case in the media, and according to child rights groups working on the issue, at least 10 girl ...
read full comment
“What he did is just disgraceful and a person like him could not be allowed to be part of a religious institution because what he did goes against all that Christianity stands for. Some members were threatening to beat him ...
read full comment
Woman duped by 'pastor' lover
General News of Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Source: Karim Hamza
Many have been victims of internet fraud which is popularly called “Sakawa” in Ghana. Most of these victims are usually lure ...
read full comment
we are not here with women with wild p'ssy.the issue here is children,those who dosn't know the difference between black and blue.Dont you think this church women do beg the postors to sleep with them. i thought you are going ...
read full comment
leave this man alone and rather fight against arm robbering in the country. why should she even go to the hospital alone
YOU CALL YOURSELF INTERLEGENT BOY. BUT YOU ARE A RAPER. YOU SHOULD BE HANGED ALSO.
How can our women be protected from being harrased, beaten,sexually assult by our men.What law protect our women?
This fucken pastor need to hang so that he will not do to another young girl again. This has come out. The question is do you know how many girls he had been sexing them? Even he do to his own daughter, what about somebody's ...
read full comment
Should be kIlld.
Send his black ass to jail
very,very bad he must bare the punishment
Pastor Kumi was practicing his culture, becaues the Asantes say Etwe Nye Baakofo Dea.