{"id":448559,"date":"2017-12-20T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T08:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/farmer-jailed-23-years-for-defiling-11-year-old-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T08:21:38","slug":"farmer-jailed-23-years-for-defiling-11-year-old-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/farmer-jailed-23-years-for-defiling-11-year-old-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer jailed 23 years for defiling 11-year-old &#8216;girlfriend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/84430865.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jail Prison Cuffs\" title=\"Jail Prison Cuffs\" width=\"295\" height=\"202\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A farmer has been jailed  23 years for defiling a girl at  Dwomo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A Duayaw-Nkwanta  Circuit Court in the Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region presided over His Lordship  Alexander Graham has convicted a 32-year-old farmer, Kwabena Yeboah  to 23 years imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The facts of the case as presented to the court by Chief Inspector Sampson Oduro, the accused and the victim live in the same house at Dwomo, a village near Techimantia in the Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was going to her grandfather\u2019s house when she met brother of the accused who told her Kwabena Yeboah wanted to see her but she ignored and continued walking.<\/p>\n<p>The brother who felt insulted by the conduct of the victim, dragged her to the accused person\u2019s room where the accused forcibly  had sex with her and afterwards gave her GH\u00a23 but warned her not to reveal her ordeal to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>On reaching home the victim reported the matter to her parents who in turn lodged an official complaint with the police leading to the arrest of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>In his caution statement, he claimed the victim was his girlfriend adding that he only licked her private and never had sex as claimed.<\/p>\n<p>He was found guilty of the offence after trial and accordingly jailed 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in his remarks before sentencing the accused, said he took notice of an increase in such cases despite series of campaigns against such practices and also cited some instances where some of the victims die and others acquire several complications including permanent deformities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-20 A farmer has been jailed 23 years for defiling a girl at Dwomo A Duayaw-Nkwanta Circuit Court in the Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region presided over His Lordship Alexander Graham has convicted a 32-year-old farmer, Kwabena Yeboah to 23 years imprisonment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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