Accra, June 29, GNA – A circuit court in Accra on Wednesday remanded Margaret Amoako, a trader, for aiding and abetting with her husband to have sex with their 16-year-old daughter.
The court presided over by Mrs Georgina Mensah Datse did not take her plea and would reappear on July 4.
Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sarah Acquah told the court that sometime in June this year, the victim (name withheld) reported a case of incest against her biological father George Koffie, a military officer, to the Domestic Violence and Victim Unit (DOVVSU).
ASP Acquah said when the victim told her mother about the father’s sexual intercourse with her, she (mother) said the matter should be kept secret in order not to disgrace the family.
The prosecutor said the mother asked her to rather come home and she gave her some drugs to take.
When the victim insisted on reporting the matter to the police the mother did not take it lightly and beat and locked her up in a room.
ASP Acquah said when the victim finally reported the matter to the police, the mother went to the victim’s school to force her to tell the police that the report she made was false and that her father never had sex with her.
The mother again begged and implicated another person, who is a witness in the case, to deceive the police that he rather had sex with the victim in order for her husband to go scout free but the witness refused.
ASP Acquah said the right of the child was being infringed upon and therefore the parents needed to face the law to deter others from the same crime.
Source: GhanaWeb
