Two Jailed 20 years for defiling 14-year-old

A Circuit Court in Cape Coast has sentenced two men to a total of 20 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a co-tenant's 14-year old daughter.

The convicts, Kwaku Yeboe, 29, carpenter and Kwame Tawiah,27, driver both pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement but the Court presided over by Mrs Dorinda Arthur Smith found them guilty after trial.

Yeboe was jailed eight years while Tawiah got 12 years.

Prosecuting, Sergeant Iddrissu Yakubu told the court that the complainant and the father of the victim is a security man who lived in a compound house with the two convicts at Nkanfoa, a suburb of Cape Coast.

He said the victim often visited Yeboe's room to watch a popular television programme "who killed Lydia".

The Prosecution said in December 2018, the victim went to Yaboe's room with her younger brother to watch television, but Yeboe sent her brother on an errand, took advantage of the situation and had sexual intercourse with the her.

Sgt. Yakubu said after the act Yeboe warned the victim not to inform her parents or his wife.

The prosecution said Tawiah also defiled the girl when his wife asked the victim to accompany her husband who was on his way work to buy pork for her last year.

Sgt. Tawiah said on their way towards Nkanfoa junction along the Cape Coast- Accra highway, Tawiah stopped his Taxi Cab, locked all the doors and had sexual intercourse with the victim in the vehicle.

He said Tawiah repeated the act on five occasions and warned the victim not to inform her parents or his wife.

He said on the 2nd day of February, 2019, the victim told her father about Tawiah’s sexual acts with her and he subsequently reported the incident to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU)in Cape Coast leading to Tawiah's arrest.

The Prosecution said on February 12, 2019 the victim again told his father about Yeboe's sexual encounter with her and he was also arrested by the Police.