A Kumasi Circuit Court has ordered that a 19-year old mason should be kept in prison for 15 years in hard labour for defilement.
Abdul Fatau pleaded guilty to the charge of defiling a 10-year old pupil.
Police Chief Inspector Comfort Baffour-Kyei told the Court presided over Mr Justice Emmanuel Amoh-Yartey that the convict lived in the same
neighbourhood at Adankwame in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District with the victim.
In the afternoon of Saturday, October 11, Fatau invited the small girl to his house to cook for him, which she obliged.
Chief Inspector Baffour-Kyei said Fatau took advantage of the absence of his co-tenants, who had then gone to their farms, and lured the girl into
his room where he sexually abused her.
She said Fatau warned the girl not to tell anyone about what she had been through and threatened to invoke the "Antoa shrine," a powerful river deity, to strike her dead, if she disregarded the warning.
A week later, the girl started bleeding profusely from her genital organ and when questioned by her auntie, she told her everything.
Chief Inspector Baffour-Kyei said a formal complaint was made to the Suame Police Domestic Violence and Victims' Support Unit (DVVSU) and Fatau
was arrested.
A police medical form signed by doctors who examined and treated the victim confirmed she had been defiled.
Fatau admitted the offence in his caution statement to the police.