Yaw Asumadu was granted a GHS 10,000 bail with two sureties for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old by the Tarkwa Circuit Court.
The 30-year-old farmer pleaded not guilty on the charge of defilement and would appear before court again on Monday, September 17.
Chief Inspector Prosecutor Fausitna Celestina Anaman said the two live in the same village, Akotom, the victim with her parents. She further narrated that a month ago, the victim’s mother sent her to fetch cocoa yam suckers from the accused after close of school.
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Prosecuting Chief Inspector Celestina Anaman continued that the victim invited two of her colleagues to accompany her to Asumadu’s farm. The Prosecutor said when they arrived the accused person sent the victim’s friends to go and harvest sugarcane from a nearby farm.
At Asumadu’s farm – he took the victim to a single room on his farm where he rears goats and on a lazy chair had a smooth sex with the victim and offered her GHS 2.00 to keep her mute. The mother of the victim again sent her again, but this time to thank her which the act again repeated, but this time for a long hour.
The accused took advantage and had sexual intercourse with the victim again after which he offered her another GH¢2.00 and warned her not to inform anyone.
A week later, Chief Inspector Anaman said Asumadu met the victim while she was on her way to the farm and demanded to have sex with her but she declined and he threatened to kill her if she told any one of the affair.
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The prosecutor told the Tarkwa Circuit court that the victim later started experiencing severe pains whenever she attended to nature’s call and informed her mother about her ordeal. She said a complaint was lodged with the police and the accused was subsequently arrested and a medical form was issued to the victim to seek medical attention.
