A father, who inflicted severe body wounds on his seven year old son with a cable wire rendering him incapacitated, was on Thursday sentenced to a 24-month jail term.<\/p>\n
The apology of the 28-year old Ahmed Jalloh, a computer technician, to his son in open court did not attract any leniency from the presiding judge, Mrs Larenda Owusu.<\/p>\n
Jalloh was therefore sentenced on his own plea of guilty for causing harm.<\/p>\n
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Sarah Acquah said the accused was living with his son, Master John Kwabena Jalloh, a class one pupil of Tema Padmore School at Tema site \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201c15\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d while the mother stayed at site 20.<\/p>\n
She said the parents were not living together because no marital rite was performed when the pregnancy occurred.<\/p>\n
Chief Inspector Acquah said on January 13 this month, John visited the mother without the knowledge of the father.<\/p>\n
She said later in the evening when the father got to know that the son was with the mother, he became angry and subjected the boy to severe beatings with a cable wire when he returned home.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said Jalloh beat the son mercilessly and continued to do that despite blood oozes from the wounds inflicted on him and later locked him indoors for two days.<\/p>\n
When later he realized that the victim\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s condition was deteriorating he sent him to the Tema Polyclinic for treatment where the police was informed about the case. <\/p>\n
Chief Inspector Acquah said Jalloh attempted to escape but he was apprehended and charge accordingly.<\/p>\n
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