Farmer defiles 14 -year-old

Mpraeso, April 24, GNA -Charles Donkor, a 47-year-old farmer and video operator on Friday, appeared before the Mpraeso Circuit Court, for defiling a 14-year-old primary six pupil. Donkoh, pleaded not guilty to the charge, and has been remanded in police custody for two weeks.

Prosecuting, Detective Police Inspector Christian Apronti told the court, presided over by Mr Alex Owusu Ofori that, the victim, who attends the Ehiawoaewu District Assembly Primary school near Akoase, stays with her mother whiles Donkor, who lived at Tiawiah, goes round the surrounding villages including Ehiawoaewu, showing video films. He said the victim's mother detected that her daughter had been pilfering some items like rice and provisions from her store to Donkor, whenever he comes to the village to show video films, to enable her to watch without paying.

The prosecutor said the victim's mother confronted Donkor and warned him not to allow the girl to enter the video centre again. On April 09, Donkor went to the Ehiawoaewu village on his usual rounds to show his video film and managed to lure the victim into his room after the show around 0030 hours.

He then had sex with the girl whiles her mother was frantically looking for her. The prosecutor said at about 01.00 hours the victim's mother had a tip-off that the girl was in Donkor's room so she went there and after several knocks on the door, the victim came out but took to her heels. A report was made to the police and Donkor was arrested and a medical form was later issued to the victim to attend hospital for medical examination. The report later showed that the girl had been sexually assaulted but Donkor denied having had sex with her. 24 April 10