The suspect Constable Kennedy Sarfo, a police officer stationed at Dzodze in the Ketu North District allegedly defiled the girl in his room.

[contextly_sidebar id=”TDXVCsmweViqW5idkKpEAoMkaXdZRqlP”]An anonymous source in the town who disclosed the incident to Citi News said the victim who is a primary five pupil was asked by an errand boy of the police officer on 7th May to accompany him to the officer’s room.

On reaching there, the errand boy who is also a commercial motor rider in town let off; leaving the victim and the suspect alone in the room.

The officer then at a gunpoint allegedly forced the young girl into having sex with him.

Constable Sarfo after the act detained the victim is his room till the next day and threatened to kill her if she reported her ordeal to anyone.

The source said the victim was seen bleeding and the parents got wind of the issue and confronted the officer who then pleaded that the issue be settled at family level.

The suspect according to the source gave GHC4O to the parents of the victim and had since refused to pick his calls although the victim’s health was deteriorating.

The situation compelled the parents to send the victim to the hospital and subsequently reported the case to his superiors.

The Ketu North Police Commander DSP Robert Lawson who confirmed the incident Citi News said the suspect has been arrested while the case is being investigated.
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By: King Norbet Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The victim, who is step daughter of the accused, alleged that the (accused) had defiled her on three occasions at Nungua and he was put before an Accra Circuit Court on September 5.

The Circuit Court presided over by Mrs Ruby Naa Akwerley Quaison, did not take the plea of Tetteh following prosecution submissions that they were conducting further investigations into the matter.

The court, therefore, remanded Tetteh a mason, facing a charge of defilement, into lawful custody to reappear on Friday.

However, during the sittings, Prosecuting Detective, Inspector Kofi Atimbire, informed the court that the Police had concluded the investigations.

According to the Prosecutor, the complainant (the mother) had indicated that victim had confessed to her that the allegation made against the accused person was untrue and they have submitted their statements to the Police.

Prosecution said the statements have been put on the court’s records.

The case of Prosecuting Detective Inspector Kofi Atimbire said the complainant was a mother of the victim who resides at Ashaiman.

The accused person, prosecution said was the husband of the complainant. Two weeks ago, the victim who lived with her biological father at Ashiaman and went to look for her mother who then was in Nungua but did not find her because she had packed out of the house as a result of a misunderstanding.

Due to her mother’s absence, the victim went loitering and she was sent to the Police Station by a Good Samaritan who opted to take care of the victim while the Police conduct investigations to locate the complainant.

However, during the victim’s stay with the Good Samaritan, she sneaked out on three occasions to ascertain whether she could locate her mother at the house.

Detective Inspector Atimbire said Tetteh on all the three occasions had sex with the victim. When the victim was finally reunited with the complainant, she narrated her ordeal to the mother.

The victim’s mother lodged complaint with the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service and accused was apprehended while a medical form was issued to the victim to seek medical attention.

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Source: GNA

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