A 19-year-old commercial driver has been hauled before an Accra Domestic Violence and Gender Based court for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl.
The accused, Bismark Eshun allegedly lured the girl, who sells ‘pure water’ at the Kwashiman Lorry Station in Accra to his house and forcibly had sex with her.
The prosecutor, Detective Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbiri, told the court that the accused, who used to buy water from the victim, had sex with her from 15-16 August this year at Sowutuom also in Accra.
Bismark, who appeared before court, presided over by the trial judge, Mrs. Ruby Naa Adjeley Quayson, denied the charge and was remanded into police custody until September 14.
Earlier, the prosecutor told the court that investigations into the case were still ongoing and that they intend to establish the age of the victim at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The complainant in the case is one Anti Badu, a trader at Kwashiman who resides at Amasaman.
At about 7pm on the said day, the accused spotted the victim by the road side at Kwashieman, stopped his vehicle and conveyed her to his house at Sowutuom where he forcibly had sex with her.
Bismark, after the act, warned the victim not to tell anybody about the incident but she bled profusely through her vagina as a result of the sexual intercourse.
The accused person kept the victim with him for two days during which he had sex with her on several occasions.
On August 17, Bismark conveyed the victim to the complainant at Amasaman at about 6:30am and ordered her to enter the house after he had left the scene.
The victim told the complainant about her ordeal which led to the arrest of Bismark.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson