{"id":1082417,"date":"2022-05-10T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/did-you-know-if-a-woman-rapes-a-man-she-cannot-be-taken-to-court\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:26:51","slug":"did-you-know-if-a-woman-rapes-a-man-she-cannot-be-taken-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/did-you-know-if-a-woman-rapes-a-man-she-cannot-be-taken-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know? If a woman rapes a man, she cannot be taken to court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Act 29, Section 98 of the Ghanaian Constitution, as cited by a document prepared (2020) by Ghana’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, only men can be prosecuted for rape charges.<\/p>\n

The Act states that rape in Ghana is defined as a man “having carnal knowledge of a female” who is less than sixteen years, without her consent.<\/p>\n

This means that if a woman forces a man into sexual intercourse without the man’s consent, the woman cannot be taken to court.<\/p>\n

The Ghanaian Constitution criminalizes a man raping a woman, but not a woman raping a man.<\/p>\n

This is interesting for several reasons.<\/p>\n

First, it is very rare to hear of a woman raping a man in Ghana. The ones we often hear about are men raping women.<\/p>\n

But, in the age of “equal” rights and justice, is it really equal when a woman cannot be prosecuted for an offence could land a man up to 25 years in jail?<\/p>\n

Your comments are welcome.<\/p>\n

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According to Act 29, Section 98 of the Ghanaian Constitution, as cited by a document prepared (2020) by Ghana’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, only men can be prosecuted for rape charges. The Act states that rape in Ghana is defined as a man “having carnal knowledge of a female” who is less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,697,9715,1029],"class_list":["post-1082417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-court","tag-man","tag-rapes","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}