The Accra Circuit Court has fixed May 7, 2015, to rule on a submission of “no case” filed before it by the defence counsel for Sulley Ali-Gabass, the medical doctor accused of sodomising a 16-year-old student.
The submission is to assert their argument that the gynaecologist from the Effia Nkwanta Hospital in Sekondi had not been implicated in the charges preferred against him.
Counsel, therefore, prayed the court to dismiss the prosecution’s claim and discharge the medical doctor of the alleged sodomy charges.
Prosecution
However, the prosecution opposed the defence team’s application and prayed the court not to grant the defence counsel’s request.
That, the prosecution said, would compel the accused to open his defence in the case.
Witnesses
So far, five witnesses have testified in the trial.
They included the victim, the journalist who broke the news, Manasseh Awuni Azure, the medical doctor who examined the victim, Dr Nii Aryee, a surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and the father of the victim.
Background
According to the facts of the case, the victim is a student who resided at Kasoa, while Ali-Gabass is a medical practitioner at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
In September 2013, the victim encountered Ali-Gabass on Facebook and they became friends.
“They exchanged ideas online and communicated by phone for a while until, in October 2013, when Ali-Gabass arranged and met the victim at the Kasoa New Market area where the suspect forcibly had anal sex with the victim in his car,” the prosecution claimed.
The prosecution said at about 7:00 p.m. on December 28, 2013, the two met again at the same venue where Ali-Gabass was alleged to have had anal sex with the victim after which he offered the victim a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone and an amount of GH¢20.
After the second sexual act, it said the victim became ill, and Ali-Gabass allegedly prescribed paracetamol tablets for him.
“The act was repeated at the same venue in February 2014,” the prosecution said.
According to the prosecution, in March and April 2014, Ali-Gabass lured the victim to his house at Alajo in Accra where he allegedly had another bout of anal sex with him.
“After the fifth incident, the victim started experiencing excruciating pains and complained to Ali-Gabass to give him money to attend hospital but he refused.
“Rather, he threatened the victim persistently via phone calls and managed to put fear in him from disclosing his ordeal,” the prosecution further claimed.
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