Teacher in prison custody for defilement

Kumasi, May 28, GNA - A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded Maxwell Adams 40, a teacher into prison custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old student.

He pleaded not guilty and would re-appear on June 7. Police Chief Inspector Archibald Kwasi Fandoh told the court presided over by Mr Justice R.K. Kugyapwah that the victim lived with her parents at Ayeduase near Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

He said the accused who also lived in Ayeduase asked the victim to fetch some water for him sometime in April this year. The prosecution said when the victim brought the water, the accused gave her some concoction and she fell asleep in his room after which he defiled her.

He said a witness who saw the act called other witnesses who confronted the accused and escorted the victim who could not walk to her parents.

Police Chief Inspector Fandoh said a report was made to the police who issued the victim with a medical form and after examination was confirmed to have been defiled.

He said the accused after the act went into hiding but was later arrested and admitted that he gave the victim some concoction but denied he defiled her, after investigations he was charged with the offence.