A 74-year-old resident of Community 4 in Tema, William Ahuma Dosoo aka Tsekpo, has been arrested by the Community 11 police for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old pupil of a basic school in Tema. Dosoo, a former fishing clerk, is said to have on several occasions defiled the victim in his Community 4 residence, with the last incident said to have taken place on Tuesday November 22, 2011 around 6:30am. The suspect denied defiling the school girl because according to him, he could not ‘penetrate’ anytime he tried to push his penis into her vagina. He however admitted that he had fingered her several times, perhaps to get her vagina open so that he could have sexual intercourse with her. According to ASP Belinda Banini, the Community 11 police Crime Officer, the victim’s mother visited her office on November 23, 2011 and reported Dosoo as having defiled her 12-year-old daughter in his house. ASP Banini said she sent some of her men to arrest the suspect immediately. Dosoo, she said, during his interrogation, admitted to the offence and stated that he defiled her twice and not 12 times, as mentioned by the victim. The crime officer told Daily Guide that the victim’s mother narrated that on November 22, 2011 around 6:30am, she could not locate her 12-year-old daughter when the girl should have been preparing for school. The mother was said to have gone round looking for the victim and even went to the house of the suspect who happened to be her neighbour. Dosoo, according to the victim’s mother, denied seeing her that morning, compelling the mother to continue with her search which lasted several minutes. Perhaps, suspecting Dosoo, the mother was alleged to have stood at a distance and monitored the house of the suspect and after a few minutes, she saw her daughter coming out of the house of the suspect. This, according to the crime officer, did not go down well with the mother who questioned her daughter as to what she was doing in the suspect’s house at that time of the morning. Out of fear that she would die if she ever disclosed his shameful act, the victim later left for school without saying a word. After school, the victim confided in her mother that the suspect had lured her into his house under the guise of giving her money for school and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her, after removing her clothes. She was said to have further narrated to her mother that it was actually not the first time the suspect had defiled her and that he had told her that if she told her mother, she would be harmed by a plant in his house. This, according to the crime officer, compelled the victim to keep quiet for fear that she would die if she breathed a word about the incident. “Had it not been for the November 22, 2011 incident, I would not have known about this wicked and shameful act on my innocent daughter,” the mother told Daily Guide. Narrating her version of the incident, the 12-year-old said that she had always run errands for the 74-year-old until one day when the suspect pulled a pornography book from his room and showed two white couples engaged in sexual intercourse. “He asked me if I knew what the couple was doing and when I told him that I did not know, he went ahead to ask if I could perform some of the acts that they were engaged in. I again told him that I could not do that,” she said. “He later gave me the pornography book to go and put it in his room. He followed me to his bedroom, and quickly pushed me on to his bed and had sex with me after which he warned me not to say a thing about it to anyone or else a plant in his house will harm me,” she said. According to her, Dosoo started defiling her when she was 11 years old and in class three, and had done that to her for about 12 times until the last incident. Dosoo denied defiling her several times and pointed out to Daily Guide that he had however performed lewd acts with the girl only twice. He told Daily Guide it was not true that he defiled the victim, adding that he tried sometime back and quickly stopped because he could not get an erection. “I always fondled her breasts for fun because my thing (penis) cannot function well. I have blood pressure and I might die if I tried to have sex and it is the real reason why I have not bothered to marry again after divorcing my wife several years ago. I live alone and my son who is based in Germany remits me from time to time,” he told Daily Guide. Dosoo, according to ASP Banini, would be arraigned after investigations.