A Koforidua circuit court presided over by Mrs Mercy Adei-Kotei has sentenced three men to 20 years imprisonment each on two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime, to wit defilement and defilement.
They are Yaw Preko, 25-year-old Cobbler; Adamu, 19-year-old driver’s mate; Awudu Kamilu, 18-year-old Head Porter, all residents of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu East District.
Two others, Junior and Sarfo, are at large.
The facts of the case as presented to the court by Assistant State Attorney Mr Dickson Donkor was that on March 5, 2017, at about 1400 hours, the 14-year-old victim (name withheld) an iced-water seller at the Nkawkaw Lorry Park was returning from the house of one Isaac who had promised her some money to help in her iced-water business and met Yaw Preko, the first accused who called her and proposed love to her.
According to the prosecution, the girl refused the proposal, Yaw Preko then called the other accused persons and followed her, caught up with the victim and forcibly covered her mouth with their hands and carried her to a nearby bush.
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