Defiled victim abandons parental home, and...

...vows to marry the accused

A fifteen year-old girl, who was allegedly defiled by a driver's mate has absconded from her parental home and vowed to marry the mate after he was remanded in custody.

The victim's mother, Ms. Elizabeth Tawiah Acquah told the court that her daughter had vowed that even if the accused were jailed for 30 years, she would still marry him. The victim broke down in tears when Jerry Ankrah, 19, was remanded in prison custody for sentencing after pleading guilty to defilement by the court last Tuesday.

According to the victim's mother, the victim is nowhere to be found. The case has been adjourned to March 1. Prosecuting, Police Inspector Emmanuel T. Boison told the tribunal, chaired by Mr. Imoru Ziblim that last month, the victim left the house without her parents' knowledge.

The prosecutor said later Ms. Acquah got wind that the accused had harboured the victim at his room at Labone in Accra and had been having sex with her. Inspector Boison said Ms. Acquah made a report to the police and Ankrah was arrested. During interrogations, Ankrah admitted having defiled the victim but maintained that she is her lover.