Victim of defilement forced to abandon school

Vakpo, (V/R), Sept. 24, GNA - One of the two teenage girls, allegedly defiled in police cells at Vakpo in February 2007, was forced to stop schooling since she could not withstand the taunts by her school mates.

The victim, who is about 15 years old now and would have been in Junior High School Form One, is carrying a five-month old pregnancy, Mr Kenneth Asamoah, her father, told the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday. He said her cousin, an apprentice, who was defiled together with his daughter, has also left the town. Mr Asamoah said her daughter told him that after the incident, all her friends at school deserted her.

He said according to his daughter, she was feeling uncomfortable and could not concentrate in class compelling her to leave school. Mr Asamoah said her daughter was also unwilling to go to any other school in the community because information regarding her alleged defilement had become community gossip. Mr Bennet Kaka, Circuit Supervisor of Vakpo, who spoke to the GNA at the Vakpo Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School, where the victim was schooling, confirmed that the girl had dropped out of school for almost two years.

The Headmistress of the School however declined to speak to the they were detained over a scuffle with a woman. The two alleged that while in the cell in the evening, two young men came to them and took them to another room at the Police Station and defiled them at midnight while the officer on duty ignored their shouts and screams for help. 24 Sept. 09