Unemployed charged with defilement

Accra, Aug. 27, GNA - An Accra Community Tribunal on Friday remanded Yaw Abayavor, a 28-year-old unemployed, in police custody for allegedly forcibly having sex with a 13-year-old maidservant. The plea of Abayavor, who is charged with defilement, was not taken and he will appear again on September 17.

The tribunal chaired by Mr Kwadwo Owusu ordered that the accused person should be sent to the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital for examination because of his ill-mannered demeanour at the tribunal.

While in the dock, Abayavor turned his back to the panel with his hands raised. Police Inspector Alex Yartey Tawiah said the complainant is a trader who lives at Taifa New Town in Accra with the victim who is her maidservant.

The prosecution said at about 2 pm on August six, when the trader went to market, Abayavor, who also lives at Taifa, sneaked into a room in the house where the victim was sleeping. He struggled with the victim, until he succeeded in dragging her from the room and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her under a shed.

Inspector Tawiah said in the process of the sexual intercourse, a carpenter who was roofing a house near the scene saw them and hooted at them. He said Abayavor took to his heels. When the complainant returned, she was informed and she made a report to the police.