Houseboy remanded for defilement

A cleaner, Benjamin Teye Okonor, who is accused of defiling his mistress's 13 year old granddaughter at Spintex in Accra on Tuesday, appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Okonor charged with defilement denied the charge and was remanded into prison custody to reappear on August 13.

Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Agnes Boafo told the court that the complainant is a businesswoman and a grandmother to the victim. ASP Boafo said the accused person was a house boy to the complainant. Somewhere last year, the victim took her bath and was dressing up in the hall when Okonor entered and had sex with her for the first time on the floor.

Prosecution said July 14, this year at about 5:00 pm the complainant left the accused person, the victim and her sibling in the house and left to the Airport. Okonor therefore took advantage of the absence of the complainant lured the victim to the hall and he and the victim undressed and Okonor compelled the victim to sit on his penis and had sex with her for the second time.

While the act was going on, the victim’s six year old sister who watched the act through the window, informed the complainant who revealed her ordeal to her grandmother.

The complainant, according to prosecution, reported the matter to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit at Sakumono where a medical form was issued to the victim to attend hospital for examination and treatment. On July, 15, this year, Okonor was arrested and during interrogation he admitted the offence.