By Joyce
Danso, GNA
Accra, July 20, GNA – Afua Adoko, a
fishmonger, who was involved in selling a 14-year old boy for a fee of GH¢100.00
has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
This was after the court presided over by Mrs
Abena Oppong Adjin Doku has found her guilty at the end of her trial.
Afua was facing charges of conspiracy to
commit crime and preparation to commit crime to wit human trafficking.
The court on January, 17, last year, sentenced
her accomplices namely Ama Adomah, a 30 year old, nursing mother and Kweku
Acquah to five years imprisonment each.
The facts as narrated by Deputy Superintendent
of Police (DSP) Clemence K Abadamlora was that the complainant is a trader
residing at Adabraka, Accra.
DSP Abadamlora said Afua is also a fishmonger
and she was married to Acquah, a fisherman that Afua and Acquah travelled from
Winneba to Yeji, a fishing community in the Brong Ahafo Region.
On November 20, 2016, Afua and Acquah
approached Adomah to give them the victim to assist them to go fishing at Yeji.
Prosecution said Adomah agreed to offer her
son to the two for a fee of GH¢100.00.
Adomah, Afua and Acquah agreed to travel to
Accra with the victim and later to Yeji.
Prosecution said three days later at the
Adabraka Market, Adomah handed the victim to Afua and Acquah.
The victim began crying and resisted being
taken to Yeji.
This attracted the attention of the
complainant and she reported the matter to the Police at Adabraka, who arrested
Afua together with the victim.
Prosecution said the matter was later referred
to Anti-Human Trafficking Unit where Acquah and Adomah were arrested.
GNA