An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced an 87-year-old man to seven years imprisonment for defiling a 10-year-old girl. The accused, Tanko Aklosu pleaded not guilty to defilement.
Mrs Georgina Mensah-Datsa, the trial judge, before passing the sentence asked Aklosu, if he had anything to say to the court. The accused insisted that he was innocent of the offence and had not defiled the victim.
However, Mrs Mensah-Datsa stated that the prosecution in the matter was able to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt and also found the victim to be consistent in her evidence.
She said the medical report from the Police Hospital indicated that the victim had been penetrated and as such found the accused guilty and convicted him accordingly.
Mrs Mensah-Datsa said the accused had the right to appeal against his conviction.
The Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sarah Acquah said the complainant, Stephen Tetteh is a mason, who lived with his 10-year-old daughter at Nungua while the accused, lived at Nungua Zongo.
She said on June 6, this year at about 15.30 hours the victim returned from school and decided to pay a visit to the accused person�s granddaughter who is her friend.
The prosecutor said on reaching the house, the victim�s friend asked her to wait while she went to fetch water outside the house.
She said the victim who had bought some kenkey to eat with her friend, decided to eat some since she was hungry, duirng which the accused who was not at home, came and met the victim in the house. As they were alone, the accused lured the victim into a room and ate the kenkey with her.
The prosecution said after they had finished eating, the accused defiled the victim making her to bleed profusely from the vagina.
ASP Acquah said the victim went home bleeding compelling her father, Tetteh, to ask what had happened to her, and she disclosed her ordeal to the complainant and mentioned the accused as the culprit.
She said the complainant took the victim to the Nungua DOVVSU unit and reported the case, where a medical form was issued and the victim was taken to the Police Hospital where she was admitted for two days and discharged.
The prosecutor said the accused was arrested and after investigations charged with the offence.
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