Farmer jailed three years for defiling eight-year-old girl in Upper East Region
A Bolgatanga Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer to three years imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl at Kanga, a suburb of Zorko in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. Yaw Apuriyuure Azorkosakiya, 19 years, was accused of defiling a female child below age 16 contrary to the Criminal and Other Offences Act […]
Police urge parents to eschew settling defilement cases at home
SOURCE: GNA Parents have been advised to refrain from settling defilement cases at home as that can result in dire consequences, sometimes in situations that can be life-threatening. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Faustina Awumey, the Volta Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), said this at a General Assembly meeting […]
Pianist jailed 20 years for defiling church member’s daughter
An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced Dickson Ofosu, a 28-year-old Tailor to 20 years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl at a church premises in Agbogba, Accra. Ofosu, also a Pianist, is said to have defiled the victim also at the living room of the complainant who had offered him shelter, and other places. Charged […]