Four students arrested for gang raping girl, 15

TAKORADI, Ghana, September 28 -- Police have arrested four out of six Senior Secondary School students who allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old student of the Bedu-Addo Junior Secondary School in Takoradi. They are Daniel Atta Ntow, 18, of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), Daniel Oppong, 19, of the Saint John's Secondary School, Solomon Yankson of Nsein Secondary School and Christopher Nsiah also of GSTS.

Two others, Dominic Abanjye of GSTS and Albert Prah of St. John's Secondary School, are on the run. The four, who are assisting the police to locate the whereabouts of the other two, have been granted police enquiry bail.

Disclosing this to the Ghana News Agency at Takoradi on Tuesday, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Yusif Chilala, in charge of Crime at the

Takoradi Central Police station said, the victim who lives with her mother at the Airport Ridge, was invited by Daniel Oppong to accompany him to visit a friend. DSP Chilala said Oppong took the victim to Yankson's house where they met five other boys.

He said the group entertained the girl and later had sex with her in turns until she could hardly walk, a practice popularly referred to among students as "gala".