Patience Gideon Gold
A CIRCUIT Court in Tarkwa has sentenced a sex worker to 20 years’ imprisonment in hard labour for trafficking two young ladies from Nigeria to Ghana and forcing them into prostitution.
Patience Gideon Gold was arrested by the police for trafficking the two girls into Ghana under the pretext of offering them a job as bar attendants in her drinking spot, but ended up forcing them into prostitution while collecting the proceeds from their illicit trade.
Court documents state that the victims, upon their arrival in Ghana refused to work as prostitutes and the convict forcibly and under duress, shaved their pubic hairs, cut their fingers nails and made them swear that they will go mad if they failed to work as sex workers, to enable her recoup the money she spent on bringing them to Ghana.
Out of fear, the victims engaged in prostitution and the monies were charged and collected by the convict.
Patience Gideon Gold was arrested and charged with four offences; one count of human trafficking, illegal abortion, assault and prostitution.
She pleaded guilty to the charges and was convicted on her own plea. Her Honour Hathia Αma Manu, the presiding judge, sentenced the convict to 20 years’ imprisonment in hard labour.
The court has ordered that the victims be sent to the Police Headquarters, Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, in order that they may aid in the relocation of the victims back to Nigeria.
The prosecution’s brief facts indicated that one of the victims got pregnant in the process, and the convict gave her a herbal concoction and illegally terminated the pregnancy.
As if that was not enough, the convict relocated one of the victims to a different town after she tested positive for HIV/AIDS and the news broke.
On April 28, 2025, Patience Gideon Gold went to the new location to demand money from the victim and she was given GH¢300, which she was not happy about.
She, therefore, subjected the victim to severe beatings and seized her retroviral medications given to her at the hospital.
The victim narrated her ordeal to the second victim after which they decided to report the incidents to the police, which led to the arrest and subsequent arraignment of the convict.
The HIV/AIDS patient was taken to a different hospital where she tested positive and was given different set of drugs.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak