BARBER DEFILES GIRL, 12 (MIRROR, PAGE 27, JUNE 5, 2010)

From Joe Okyere, Cape Coast.

A THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD barber at Saltpond, Joseph Acquah, aka Kwame Attah, who thought he could do ‘an afternoon jump’ with a 12-year-old pupil is in the grip of the law after his unholy enjoyment.
Acquah who admitted defiling the girl in his caution statement, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared before the circuit court presided over by Mr. Justice Asiedu Badu.
He was therefore remanded into prison custody for two weeks.
According to the prosecutor, Inspector Daniel Agbezuhlor, Acquah took advantage of the absence of the victim’s grandmother, lured her into the grandmother’s bedroom and defiled her.
Inspector Agbezuhlor told the court that on February 27 this year, Acquah went to a drinking bar owned by the victim’s grandmother who had travelled to Kormantse to attend a funeral.
Inspector Agbezuhlor said the accused met the girl holding a loaf of bread which had been left in her care for her grandmother.
He said the accused allegedly advised the girl to take the loaf to a safe place in her grandmother’s bedroom but followed her to the bedroom and defiled her.
He said the screams of the teenager during the act attracted people who thought the teen was being beaten by her elder sister.
The victim narrated her ordeal to her grandmother on her return and after a report had been made to the police, the accused was arrested.
When the accused was called to question the evidence of a prosecution witness, Madam Adjoa Eguamba, who allegedly heard the screams of the victim while the accused was engaged in his sexual bout with the victim, he said he did not have any questions for the witness.