Chief remanded for allegedly defiling JHS girl

Togbe Attram Massadzi II, Divisional Chief of the Weta Traditional Area, has been remanded by the Circuit Court in Hohoe for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old Junior High School (JHS) student, resulting in a five-month old pregnancy.

Togbe Massadzi’s plea was not taken.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Benjamin Dadzie, told the court presided over by Mr. Samuel Kofi Solomon that the suspect was also chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association of victim’s school, in Hohoe.

He said the chief lured the girl into his room near the school, and forcibly had sex with her in January, this year.

ASP Dadzie said Togbe Massadzi threatened the victim, who was staying with the grandmother, with death if she divulged her ordeal to anyone.

The prosecution said when the grandmother of the victim died, the girl went to continue her education with her uncle’s wife in Tema.

ASP Dadzie said that the woman detected physiological changes in the victim and sent the girl to hospital in April, and a pregnancy test indicated that she was five months pregnancy.

The prosecution told the court that the girl said the chief was responsible for the pregnancy.

ASP Dadzie said Togbe Massadzi maintained his innocence and demanded a DNA test.**