The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service said on Friday that it was holding a 25-year-old cattle herdsman on suspicion of defiling a 12-year-old girl.
Issaka Seidu, alias Isaac, was said to have been arrested by a "Good Samaritan" at Abeka La Paz in Accra and he was referred to DOVVSU.
The Public Relations Officer of DOVVSO, Chief Inspector Irene Oppong, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Friday that Issaka was also being
investigated for defilement, child stealing and abduction.
It is also investigating the parents for failing to provide for the girl and exposing her to harm.
DOVVSU said investigations had revealed that the girl stayed with her father, whose parents had separated.
The girl said her mother lived at Amenhia in the Greater Accra Region and since her father neither gave her food nor paid her school fees, she at times sneaked to the mother to eat.
On October 23, her father instructed her to do house chores without giving her feeding money and when she asked her father for money, he said he would give her money after 12 noon. She therefore went to her mother to eat after doing the house work.
When her father returned he said the instructions had not been carried out so he went to his wife's house and assaulted her and took the girl back to his house where she was caned.
The girl then ran back to her mother, but she asked her to go back to her father because of the assault on her by the father.
On her way to the house of her mother's friend, she met Issaka to whom she narrated her story and he gave her GH¢1.00 to buy food. The next day she went to Issaka again and he gave her GH¢1.00.
Issaka then spent three days with the girl at Madina in Accra without the knowledge of the parents and frequently had sexual intercourse with her.
They continued to Teacher Mante, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, for three weeks and he had frequent sexual intercourse with her.
They returned to Abeka Lapaz and Issaka introduced the girl to a man as his daughter and the man gave them a kiosk to sleep in for almost two weeks.
According to the girl the man still had frequent sexual intercourse with her.
One day the owner of the kiosk called the girl and interviewed her and she revealed that Issaka was not her father and that he had been having sexual intercourse with her.
The owner of the kiosk therefore reported the case to the police.