{"id":373906,"date":"2017-11-16T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=373906"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:59:09","slug":"taxi-driver-remanded-for-allegedly-defiling-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/taxi-driver-remanded-for-allegedly-defiling-14-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver remanded for allegedly defiling 14-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Circuit Court in Hohoe in the Volta Region, presided over by His Lordship Nana Brew, has remanded into prison custody an accused person, Solomon Akuffu, for allegedly defiling a school girl on two occasions.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor, ASP Joseph Quainoo, who doubles as the Commander for the Domestic Violence and Victim’s Support Unit (DOVVSU) at Hohoe, told the court that, the complainant, Asem Mary, is a teacher of Hohoe M\/A Experimental Primary School, and a member of the school’s girls counseling unit living at Gbi-Gbledi, a suburb of Hohoe.<\/p>\n
The victim (name withheld) is a fourteen-year-old student of the said school.<\/p>\n
The accused person, Solomon Akuffu, 29, is a driver.<\/p>\n
The victim lives with her aunt, while the accused is married to the victim’s auntie, and both live in the same house at Hohoe Low Cost.<\/p>\n
On 2nd November,\u00a02017, the aunt of the victim traveled, leaving behind the accused person and the victim.<\/p>\n
On the 6th day of November, 2017 that midnight, the accused person took advantage of the absence of the wife and forcibly had sex with the victim.<\/p>\n
After the act, the accused person rendered an apology to the victim. He however forcibly had sex with her again on 8th November, 2017.<\/p>\n
The victim after the second act went to the school, and informed her school teacher who in turn told her Headteacher and a police report was later made.<\/p>\n
The accused person was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n
A medical report from the Hohoe Municipal Hospital confirmed that the victim had been sexually assaulted<\/p>\n
The accused, who confessed to the crime was charged with the offence. He however pleaded not guilty in court.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Polymath Agbanyo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Circuit Court in Hohoe in the Volta Region, presided over by His Lordship Nana Brew, has remanded into prison custody an accused person, Solomon Akuffu, for allegedly defiling a school girl on two occasions. The prosecutor, ASP Joseph Quainoo, who doubles as the Commander for the Domestic Violence and Victim’s Support Unit (DOVVSU) at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":243293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[276,3,1892,247],"yoast_head":"\n