{"id":120591,"date":"2015-05-30T15:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=120591"},"modified":"2015-05-30T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:08:50","slug":"18-year-old-convicted-for-defilement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=120591","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old convicted for defilement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old resident of Aketekyiwa near Cape Coast was on Friday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Cape Coast Circuit Court for defiling a fourteen year old Junior High School (JHS) form one student.<\/p>\n<p>The convict, Patrick Turkson, alias Ekow Atta, unemployed, had been in a sexual relationship with the victim for the past five months despite several warning from victim\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and was convicted on his own plea.<\/p>\n<p>Passing judgment, Mr. Kofi Seshie Ametewee, who presided over the court, advised Turkson to be of good behavior in prison and reform.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Sylvanus Dalmeida told the court that on Monday, May 4 this year, the victim who lives with her mother in the same town and had been dating Turkson against her mother\u2019s approval, left home unceremoniously.<\/p>\n<p>He said the victim\u2019s mother, found out, through her own investigation, that Turkson had taken her daughter to Akosombo in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 8, the victim\u2019s mother reported the incident to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in Cape Coast.<\/p>\n<p>He said when the victim returned, she was taken to the hospital for examination while Turkson was arrested after the report confirmed the victim had been defiled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old resident of Aketekyiwa near Cape Coast was on Friday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Cape Coast Circuit Court for defiling a fourteen year old Junior High School (JHS) form one student. The convict, Patrick Turkson, alias Ekow Atta, unemployed, had been in a sexual relationship with the victim for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":106442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-120591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}