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A 50-year-old businessman, David Otibu, is being sought for by the Madina Police for defiling and impregnating his 13-year-old primary four adopted daughter. The victim, (name withheld) was four years when Otibu and his wife adopted her from his parents at Awutu in the Central Region. A police source at the Madina Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Police, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a concoction Mr Otibu gave to the victim to drink, in an attempt to abort the pregnancy, would be sent to the laboratory to determine if it is a poisonous substance. Mrs Gifty Nuerkie Nortey, the Primary four teacher at the St. James Anglican Basic School at Teiman, near Oyarifa, told the Times that the girl attended class last Tuesday with a pregnancy test kit and confided in her that, Mr Otibu her guardian who had been defiling her since she was in primary two, had made her pregnant. The teacher said the girl told her that Mr Otibu, had also taken her to a clinic at Osu where it was confirmed that she was pregnant. Mrs Nortey said she also took her to the Pantang Hospital for another test and it was also confirmed that, she was pregnant. The teacher said she led the girl to make a report at the Madina Police last Friday. She alleged that after reporting the case to the police, the chief of Teiman, Nii Manle Dzahaa, got furious and summoned all the teachers to his palace, rebuking them for reporting the matter to the police. He said he had wanted to settle the case out of court but they (teachers) had shown gross disrespect to him. The chief, she said, then threatened to make life unbearable for them in the town. When the Times spoke to the chief yesterday, he admitted issuing the threat adding that the teachers had shown gross disrespect to him by ignoring his summons, and rather reported the issue to the police. He also told the Times that, David Otibu is his friend and when he called him on phone yesterday, he denied responsibility for the pregnancy, adding that, he the chief was angry because he wanted to hear from Mr Otibu first before the matter is reported to the police. The chief would however not give out Otibu�s cell phone number to the media to communicate with him.