Farmer rapes daughter

Goaso (Eastern Region) -- The Goaso District Court has remanded a 46-year-old farmer, Yaw Amoah, of Panpramase near Fosokrom in the Juabeso-Bia District, in prison custody for raping his 18-year-old daughter in the bush.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Bawah, told the court presided over by Mr Williwise Kyeremeh that both Amoah and the victim have been living in the same house at Panpramase since he divorced her mother sometime ago.

He said on November 15, Amoah informed his daughter that they would be going to farm the following day to bring foodstuffs home so she should get ready.Chief Inspector Bawah said the following morning, Amoah took a sharp cutlass and a bottle of Gamaline 20, also known as DDT, an insecticide, and set off to the farm with his daughter.

He said when the girl asked her father his reason for taking the chemical to the farm, he replied that he was going to spray his vegetables with it.According to Chief Inspector Bawah, on reaching the farm, Amoah told his daughter to choose between her life and yielding to his request of sex with her.

Inspector Bawah said to the girl?s utmost surprise, her father urged her to agree to sexual relations with him or he would murder her with the sharp cutlass or force her to drink the insecticide.

Chief Inspector Bawah said the victim, who was highly traumatised, pleaded with her father to abandon the idea of intimacy with her since it was a taboo in their custom to do that.

He said the angry father who was insensitive to the plight of his daughter, booted the girl down, gagged her, and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her.The prosecutor said after her ordeal the victim ran home as fast as her legs could carry her and narrated her ordeal to the Fosukrom Police.

He said the police managed to arrest Amoah and after interrogation he was put before court where he pleaded guilty to the charges of incest and sexual assault. Amoah, according to the prosecution, pleaded with the magistrate to deal leniently with him as he was influenced by the devil to commit the crime