A 28-year-old man who tested positive for HIV/AIDS whiles standing trial before a Kumasi circuit court for defiling a 10-year-old primary school girl has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour.
The victim’s parents have, however, for unknown reasons, declined to subject the girl to the HIV/AIDS test despite the request of the court.
Yaw Amoh, who was first arraigned before the court in April last year, pleaded not guilty.
Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Comfort Baffour-Kyei told the court presided over by Richard Mac Kogyapwah that both the convict and the victim and his parents lived at Kotei near Kumasi.
Inspector Baafour-Kyei said on April 3, last year, the victim was returning from school with her siblings when the accused called them.
She said Amoh then lured them to follow him to a distant place where he asked victim’s siblings to wait for him while he took the victim away into an uncompleted building in the bush.
The prosecution said Amoh then undressed the little girl and forcibly defiled her both anally and genitally after which he gave her 4,000 cedis and warned her not to tell anyone else she would die.
Chief Inspector Baffour-Kyei said some days later the victim’s mother found an amount of 2,500 cedis with her daughter and when she questioned her, she mentioned Yaw Amoh as the one who gave out the money after defiling her.
Amoh was then arrested and put before the court where the presiding judge requested for an HIV/AIDS test which proved positive.
Passing the sentence, Mr Kogyapwah remarked that such a person must be put away from society for a long time to prevent him from carrying out such “bestial” activities and infect more people in the process.
Source: GNA
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