Jonathan Rashid Adotey, 38, a gardener, was on Wednesday arraigned before an Accra magistrate's court for defiling his two daughters.
He is reported to have sexually assaulted his daughters, now aged 18 and 17 years, at their home at Maamobi in Accra.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge and the court, presided over by Ms Cynthia Nketiah, granted him bail in the sum of GH¢5,OOO with two sureties to be justified on September 10.
Narrating the facts, Detective Sergeant Kofi Atimbire, said the victims are daughters of the accused whose wife left him when the girls were very young.
He said the accused person took custody of the girls and was sleeping in a single room in their family house at Maamobi with the girls.
The detective sergeant further explained that one night, in 2001, when the victims were asleep, the accused person got up and inserted his fingers into the younger girl's private part. She was then nine years old.
According to the prosecutor Mr Adotey continued to sexually assault his two daughters until they reported the incidents to their family members. The family took the younger girl away to Osu to live with an aunt and her sister, to Accra New Town to stay with a friend.
The detective sergeant said, after some years, the girls went back to stay with their father.
On July 15, this year, the accused again started harassing the girls and asked the younger daughter to have sex with him.
The girls reported their father's conduct to their relatives who reported him to the police and they arrested him.
Source: The Ghanaian Times
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