From Collins Agyekum-Gyasi, Kumasi
A KUMASI circuit court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Amo Yartey has convicted a 26-year-old man, Kwasi Kankam, to 18 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a six-year-old girl.
The court was told that Kankam lived in the same vicinity with the victim and her parents at Kaase, a suburb of Kumasi.
On June 1, 2009, Kankam lured the girl to a nearby bush and forcibly had sex with her.
Chief Inspector Comfort Kyei Baafuor who prosecuted, said at about 7pm that day while the victim was playing under a mango tree, Kankam lured her into a nearby bush about 200 metres away and forcibly had sex with her.
She said during the act the victim cried out loudly due to the unbearable pain and the mother of the child who recognised her voice, quickly rushed to the scene where she also shouted for help.
The prosecutor said concerned neighbours combed the bush and later arrested the suspect.
According to the prosecutor, Kankam, who claimed in his caution statement that he had a long-standing friendship with the victim’s parents, denied defiling the girl and explained further that he was attending nature’s call in the bush when the victim saw him and followed him, begging for money.
A medical report form duly endorsed by a medical officer confirmed that the girl had been defiled.
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