Palm wine tapper remanded for defilement, abortion

Tarkwa (W/R), Sept. 1, GNA - Kwame Sowah, a palm wine taper, has been remanded by a circuit court at Tarkwa for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl, and attempting to abort a pregnancy resulting from the crime.

The court presided over by Mr John Ajet Nasam, ordered the accused to re-appear on September 11.

Presenting the facts of the case, Police Inspector Oscar Amponsah of the Tarkwa Police, said Sowah proposed love to the girl who consented. He said on several occasions Sowah had sex with the girl until she became pregnant. On August 12, this year, Sowah allegedly prepared a herbal concoction, which he inserted into the girl's private part and followed it up with sexual intercourse with intent to terminate the pregnancy. He said the young girl begun experiencing abdominal pain and when her father questioned her, she confessed, narrating all that had transpired between her and Sowah to her father. She was taken to the Huni-Valley Health Centre where she is currently undergoing treatment.

The father lodged a complaint with the police at Huni-valley and Sowah was arrested. When questioned, he admitted the offence, the prosecution added.