{"id":463206,"date":"2018-02-10T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/mason-remanded-for-defilement-general-news-2018-02-10\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:59:45","slug":"mason-remanded-for-defilement-general-news-2018-02-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/mason-remanded-for-defilement-general-news-2018-02-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason remanded for defilement | General News 2018-02-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 10 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/75349204.295.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Mallet\" title=\"Justice Mallet\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>27-year-old mason pleaded not guilty in court<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Yaw Attah, a 27-year-old mason was on Friday remanded into Police custody for allegedly defiling an eleven-year-old girl at Glefe, near Dansoman.<\/p>\n<p>Charged with four counts of defilement, Attah pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>He is to reappear on February 20th before the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Adolphine Dzansi said the complainant is a trader and a father of the victim and both resides at Glefe, near Dansoman in Accra while Attah also resides in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Dzansi said in August last year, the victim was playing with her younger sister in front of their house when Attah asked the victim to follow him.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution said the victim declined to follow but the accused lit a lighter and threatened to burn her.<\/p>\n<p>This compelled the victim to oblige to Attah\u2019s request. On reaching the accused\u2019s room prosecution said Attah had sex with the victim and warned her not to inform anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution said on November 11, last year, the victim went to remove a bed sheet from a drying line, during the process the accused saw her and for the second time invited the victim to his room he again threatened to burn her with a lighter. The victim out of fear allowed the accused defiled her.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecution on January 2, and 23 this year Attah had two sexual encounters with the victim and after each sexual encounter gives the victim GHC2.00.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution said the victim after the sexual encounters experienced pains and reported this to her mother before the complainant got wind of it.<\/p>\n<p>On January 26, this year, the complainant reported the incident to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit at Dansoman where a medical report form was issued to the victim to seek medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution said on February 3, this year the Police arrested the accused.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Saturday, 10 February 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2018-02-10 27-year-old mason pleaded not guilty in court Yaw Attah, a 27-year-old mason was on Friday remanded into Police custody for allegedly defiling an eleven-year-old girl at Glefe, near Dansoman. Charged with four counts of defilement, Attah pleaded not guilty. He is to reappear on February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}