A Kumasi Circuit Court on Monday sentenced Osei Kwabena 37, a farmer to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour on his own plea for defiling a 13-year-old girl.
Assistant Superintendent of Police George Appiah-Sakyi, prosecuting told the court presided over by Mr Kwabena Adutwum Mmorosah, that the victim lives with her senior sister and a neighbour of the accused at Buokrom, a suburb of Kumasi.
He said the victim fetched water each morning from a well close to the accused's house and on August 10 this year, the accused took her into an uncompleted building and defiled her.
The prosecution said the accused threatened her not to disclose her ordeal to anyone and victim obliged.
He said the accused repeated the act the following day, the victim who was in pain resisted but after a severe beating she gave in.
ASP Appiah-Sakyi said victim's senior sister who noticed a change in her movements questioned her and she confessed.
He said a report was made to Manhyia police where a police medical form was issued to the victim and accused was arrested and after investigations charged with the offence.
Source: GNA
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