The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service recorded a total of 165 cases in the Nkwanta District of the Volta Region in 2007.
Assault and forced marriages topped the offence list at 62 and 22 cases respectively while investigations into 10 other cases were halted because they could not be substantiated.
Mr Douglas Kumah, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in charge of the Nkwanta District made this known to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Nkwanta on Wednesday.
He said there were 13 cases of defilement, 10 threats of harm, nine abduction and eight cases each of threat of death and causing harm.
Other cases were four each of rape and offensive conduct, three each of criminal abortion and stealing, one each of causing unlawful damage, indecent assault and unlawful ejection and exposing child to harm.
Mr Kumah said 43 of the cases were prosecuted in Court, which convicted 21 people and acquitted one.
He said 21 other suspects were awaiting trial and that complainants in 42 cases could not be traced while 37 other cases were still under investigation.
Source: GNA
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