By Collins Agyekum-Gyasi, Kumasi.
THE Kumasi High Court, on Friday, remanded two accused persons in prison custody on two counts of conspiracy and defilement of a three-year old girl.
The accused persons, Desmond Addai and Osei Kwadwo both pleaded not guilty to the charges and were remanded into prison custody to reappear on February 10, 2011.
The case, which has been with the Attorney General’s Department for nearly a year, was called up for hearing on Friday, January 28, 2010.
However, trial was halted halfway into the proceedings, when a lawyer announced that she had been requested to defend the accused persons and pleaded for a short date to enable her prepare adequately to defend her clients.
Meanwhile, the accused persons had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Presenting the facts of the case to the court presided over by Justice R.C. Azumah, the Prosecuting Attorney, said the complainant, a trader, and the victim lived at Feyiase near Kumasi, where the accused persons also resided.
Mr Boison said on February 9, 2010, the complainant was searching for the victim to give her evening meal but could not find her till about 7.30 pm in the evening when she came home crying and bathed in faeces.
The victim was bleeding from her vagina.
The victim, he informed the court, then told the complainant that one of the accused persons, Addai, had sent her to buy ice water and that he and another person took her to a nearby plantain farm where they defiled her.
When she confronted Addai, he mentioned Osei Kwadwo as his accomplice because the victim could not identify him (Osei) who was wearing a mask.
According to the prosecution, a medical form duly endorsed by a medical officer, confirmed that the vagina of the victim was badly torn. Her hymen was also broken.
Based on the medical report, the Addai and Osei were arrested and charged with the crimes.
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