{"id":136632,"date":"2015-07-22T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=136632"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:18:36","slug":"farmer-jailed-for-defiling-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=136632","title":{"rendered":"Farmer jailed for defiling daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3432\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3444\" class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3443\">A Cape Coast Circuit court has sentenced Isaac Okyere, a farmer at Alumako Mando in the Central Region, to seven years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling his 13 year-old daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3442\" class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\">\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3440\">According to prosecuting Police Chief Inspector Christina Sampong, Okyere lived alone with his daughter at Twelkukrom near Ajumako Mando ever since her mother divorced him ten years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3439\" class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;oQO8DZ9O7SaIiKCCsM5q3R4nX7wmisos&#8221;]\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3438\">She stated that after confiding in her grandmother who refused to help her, the victim went to the Ajumako Police station on Friday, February 16, 2015 to report that her father had forcibly raped her at their home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3438\"> At the station, a medical form was issued and endorsed officially confirming that the girl had been defiled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3436\" class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\">\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3430\">Okyere was then arrested and taken into the custody of the Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) at Breman Aslkuma. The investigation that followed his arrest revealed that on the evening of January 24, 2015, Okyere lured his daughter into his room after returning to his farm and sexually abused her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3453\" class=\"yiv0418358320MsoNormal\">\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3454\">Okyere pleaded not guilty to the charges but was found guilty by the court of both defilement and incest. He will be serving seven years for defilement and three years in hard labour for incest concurrently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv0418358320yqt56273\" class=\"yiv0418358320yqt5933234852\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3456\" class=\"yiv0418358320gmail_extra\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437570267561_3457\" class=\"yiv0418358320gmail_quote\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv0418358320gmail_extra\">Source: GNA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cape Coast Circuit court has sentenced Isaac Okyere, a farmer at Alumako Mando in the Central Region, to seven years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling his 13 year-old daughter. \u00a0According to prosecuting Police Chief Inspector Christina Sampong, Okyere lived alone with his daughter at Twelkukrom near Ajumako Mando ever since her mother divorced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":96745,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-136632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136632","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=136632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}