Young man to serve 7 years in prison for defilement

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced an unemployed 18-year-old man, Isaac Kwofie to seven years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old girl.

Kwofie who could not hold back his tears and cried uncontrollably after his sentence, had pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and was convicted on his own plea by the court presided over by Mrs Dorinda Smith Arthur.

Defilement is an offence contrary to section 101(2) of the criminal offence Act 1960 (ACT 29).

Kwofie had prayed the court to tamper Justice with mercy amidst excuses that he was unaware the girl was under aged and that it was an offence to have sexual intercourse with a girl.

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Samuel Reynolds Amoakoh told the court that the Complainant was a driver and the father of the survivor.

He said the survivor was a Junior High School pupil at Ankaful near Cape Coast, while the convict was residing at Twitwakrom, a suburb of Cape Coast.

Chief Inspector Amoakoh said that sometime in September last year, Kwofie lured the survivor to his room and had sexual intercourse with her.

The survivor became ill later and was admitted at Ankaful Leprosarium Hospital, where a seven-week pregnancy was detected

The prosecutor said the complainant, questioned the survivor and she narrated her ordeal on how the convict managed to have sex with her.

A formal report was made to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Cape Coast, where a medical report form was issued to the survivor to go to hospital for treatment and the convict arrested.

Source: GNA