Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, Patricia Appiagyei<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, Patricia Appiagyei, has called for the three boys arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a girl in Bantama to be flogged publicly as punishment.<\/p>\n
She believes that sentencing the boys to serve time in jail would not rehabilitate them, adding that the humiliation that comes with being publicly caned would deter others better than prison terms.<\/p>\n
This manner of corporal punishment is known in some Islamic countries where the Sharia law is strictly observed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think prison will change them. It even hardens them because we don\u2019t have the kind of atmosphere where people can really reflect, and then show remorse for what they have done\u2026but when you are publicly punished I believe that will make you better\u2026I believe [flogging] them will help,\u201d the MP is quoted as having said by Accra-based Starr FM. The three boys, who will appear before a Juvenile court today [Wednesday] were arrested, on Saturday after a video, which allegedly showed them and four others, sexually assaulting a girl, went viral, and was met with widespread criticism from the Ghanaian public.<\/p>\n
The Police confirmed the arrests at a press conference stating that, the suspects are Junior High School and Senior High School students, but refused to reveal their ages.<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, the case, which was supposed to have been heard on Tuesday in-camera by a Juvenile Court, had to be postponed to today [Wednesday], due to the absence of some relevant stakeholders expected to be in the at the in-camera sitting.<\/p>\n
\u2018Drugs, alcohol influenced them\u2019<\/p>\n
The legislator also said the suspects must have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol to have committed the alleged assault.<\/p>\n
She blamed a lack of \u201cparental care\u201d for the boys\u2019 alleged actions, suggesting that they should have been advised against certain activities and influences.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe things that could have urged the young ones to indulge in this kind of sodomy as I call it, is either they were under the influence of alcohol or were on drugs,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut like I said, they are showing their wild edge, they have started having feelings and therefore were examining their feelings and directed it [there] because they don\u2019t have the right parental care to tell them that there are certain things that we don\u2019t do in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four alleged accomplices in the act are still at large, but according to Patricia Appiagyei \u201cwe don\u2019t have to waste time to get the rest, you know they are minors.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, Patricia Appiagyei<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n