A Nigerian information technology technician, Jim Clifford Edward, shocked an Accra Circuit Court when he admitted impregnating his own 14-year-old daughter at Santa Maria Aunty Eku in the Greater Accra Region.
The accused also admitted to having sexual intercourse with his daughter over the last five years which began in 2013 at the time she was just nine.
The victim’s mother is said to be mentally unstable and has not returned home for a very long time after leaving.
Jim Clifford Edward took advantage of the mental health and absence of his wife to defile his own daughter on countless occasions for five years, getting her pregnant in the process.
The pregnancy did not deter him as he is said to have continued his vile act on his own daughter in her condition.
The young victim, who could not contain the assaults of her father, gathered courage and narrated her ordeal to her brother who reported the matter to the Kaneshie police.
Jim Clifford Edward has been dragged before the court on two counts of defiling a child under the age of 16 years and incest.
He pleaded guilty to both charges but the court presided over by Ruby Naa Adjetey Quaison deferred his committal and sentencing to January 16, 2019.
The prosecution led by Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire told the court that the accused had been having sexual intercourse with the victim since 2013 until December 26, 2018.
He said Jim Clifford Edward initially denied the crime when he was arrested but he later admitted the offence in further investigation caution statement to the police.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak