Drama unfolded yesterday at the Odorkor Police Station when a 16-year-old pregnant girl mentioned her father as the one responsible for her three-month-old pregnancy. The father, Yaw Mensah, 33, was said to have used the victim to satisfy his sexual desires because his wife was carrying a nine-month-old pregnancy.

Mensah, who is a carpenter at New Bortianor in the Greater Accra region, is now in the grips of the police, charged with rape and defilement after he was caught red-handed by his wife on top of their daughter.

Briefing DAILY GUIDE, DSP Baffour Apenteng, the Crime Officer of the Odorkor Police Station, said the victim (name withheld) is the step-daughter of Yaw Mensah and had lived with them for the past four months in their chamber and hall apartment at Odorkor.

According to him, about four months ago, the victim came down from Sefwi in the Western Region to stay with her pregnant mother to assist her with household chores.

“Exactly a month after the victim’s arrival, the stepfather started pestering the girl to have an affair with him,” he explained.

He said the victim declined but did not complain to the mother, Vida Kumiwaa, but rather, to one of her sisters called Hannah.

DSP Apenteng further noted that Hannah had hinted their mother of the unholy advances by their stepfather. The mother however did not give the matter the necessary attention.

Mensah’s elder son, Joe, also spotted the father having serious sex with the victim one evening and reported the matter to their next-door neighbor.

This, according to the children, was as a result of their mother’s lukewarm attitude towards the issue. “She would not believe them if they told her themselves,” he narrated.

When the news broke, the Crime Officer said, Kumiwaa then kept surveillance on the husband until barely a week ago, when she saw the husband making love to the daughter. Out of anger and shame, Kumiwaa then reported the matter to the police.

Kumiwaa told DAILY GUIDE that she has been married to Yaw Mensah for some years now and they have three children, the fourth being the one she is carrying.

She said she never believed the children when they made assertions that their father was having an affair with her daughter.

“I thought my children were trying to defame my husband with the news, so I did not take the matter serious,” she noted.

She said it was not until her next door neighbor told her for the second time to be vigilant and “keep watch over my husband that I started paying attention to the report.”

“One night, my husband woke up around 2am whilst we were still in bed and I saw him going straight with a torchlight to where my daughter was sleeping”.

She said she kept watch and saw her husband removing the girl’s dress while she was fast asleep and “he started poking his fingers into her private parts.”

“I saw my husband insert his fingers into the vagina of my daughter and then he smelled it several times,” she said.

Later, according to her, when her husband returned to their bedroom after satisfying himself, she asked him what he was doing among the children, and he lied to her that he saw a scorpion in their bed and was trying to kill it.

Vida said, “I then picked a quarrel with him on why he did not kill the scorpion since it was a dangerous animal that could bite any of the children lying on the floor”.

She said since then, she never asked the husband anything until she again caught him red-handed and reported the matter to the Odorkor police.