Man before court for causing abortion on woman

Kade, Jan. 21, GNA - A Magistrate's court at Kade, has remanded into prison custody Dennis Annor, for intentionally and unlawfully causing abortion on a 19-year-old woman. Annor's plea was not taken and he would re-appear at court on 29 January.

Police Inspector E. A. Cobbina told the court presided over by Mr. Abdul Majid Iliasu that in the night of August 22 last year, at Akyem Abodom, the elder sister of Bridget Dwamena rushed her to the Kade Hospital because she was bleeding from her private part. Prosecution said Dwamena told the sister that she became pregnant for Annor, who gave her some tablets to terminate the pregnancy and he fled to Accra Insp Cobbina said on January 13 this year, Annor visited Dwemena in Madina, where he was arrested. 21 Jan. 2010