<\/a>A teacher has gone on trial at the Juaso Circuit Court over the defilement of a deaf and dumb girl at Akokobenom, a farming community in the Asante-Akim South District.<\/p>\nFrancis Arhin, 25, who had impregnated the 15-year-old girl, denied wrongdoing, insisting that she is his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
The court presided over by Mr Alex Obeng Asante ordered that he should be kept in prison custody to make his next court appearance on Thursday, February 27.<\/p>\n
The accused teaches in the very community where the victim lives with the mother.<\/p>\n
Police Inspector Manasseh Obimpeh said the mother had for some time observed marked changes in the victim, something that heightened her suspicion that the girl might be pregnant.<\/p>\n
He said upon prodding, she revealed that Arhin had had sex with her, a claim he did not deny, when confronted.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said the accused later prepared a concoction, gave it to the victim, ostensibly to terminate the pregnancy, but the mother intercepted the substance.<\/p>\n
She took it to the Banka police station to make a formal report.<\/p>\n
Pregnancy test conducted by doctors, who attended to her, established that she was carrying a14-week foetus.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A teacher has gone on trial at the Juaso Circuit Court over the defilement of a deaf and dumb girl at Akokobenom, a farming community in the Asante-Akim South District. Francis Arhin, 25, who had impregnated the 15-year-old girl, denied wrongdoing, insisting that she is his girlfriend. The court presided over by Mr Alex Obeng […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[17],"yoast_head":"\n
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