By Charles Tawiah, GNA
Kwadaso (Ash) Jun 15, GNA – A 37-year-old mechanic, has been jailed seven years by the Kwadaso circuit court in the Kwadaso municipality of the Ashanti region for defiling a 16-year-old girl, at Kronom in the Suame municipality.
Collins Adu pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement but was convicted after full trial of the case.
The facts of the case as presented by Police Chief Inspector David Opoku Kwabi to the court presided by Mr. Jephthah Appau are that complainant, Simon Appiah, was the grandfather of the victim.
He said on April 09, 2025, at about 5:00pm, the victim was on her way to the complainant’s vulcanising shop and met the convict.
The convict lured her into his room, inserted his finger into her vagina, had sex with her, gave her GHS10, and asked her to return home.
When the victim got home, the complainant questioned where she had been, and she explained her ordeal and led the complainant to Adu’s place of abode.
Later, her auntie, Rita, examined her and detected blood and some whitish discharge suspected to be semens around her vagina.
A report was therefore made to the Suame Police, so Adu was arrested and during three times identification parade conducted by the police, the victim identified Adu as her abuser.
In his caution statement, he denied the offence but after Police further investigations, he was charged and brought before the court.
GNA
Edited by Kwabia Owusu-Mensah/Linda Asante Agyei
Reporter: Charles Tawiah