Two remanded for defilement

TWO persons have been remanded by the Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old girl.
According to the prosecution, the first accused person, Richard Ofori Nunoo, aged 28, is a pastor with the "Wings of Success Ministry” at Laterbiokoshie but lives at Kaneshie, whilst the second accused person, Ernest Andrews, aged 39, is a cook, who resides at Sukula and Emefs Estate in Afienya, Accra.
According to the prosecution, the complainant, Samuel Tornyi, who is the father of the victim and lives at Russia, a suburb in Accra, disclosed that on January 30, 2008, the victim left home unceremoniously and all efforts to trace her proved futile.
It said while loitering, the victim came into contact with one Patience Tackie, a member of church of the first accused.
Patience, the prosecution noted, took the victim home to stay with her, at her residence at Laterbiokoshie and with time the first accused, Nunoo, got to know the victim.
It continued that the victim used to go to the first accused person's house to do house chores for him on request, but after sometime the victim moved in to stay with the first accused.
The first accused then took advantage of her and defiled her during the month of October, 2008.
The prosecution further explained that the second accused person, Ernest Andrews, got to know the victim through his sister, one Naa Adjeley, who also lives with Patience.
He said whilst the relationship between the first accused person was pending, the second accused person was also in contact with the victim till November 1, 2008 when he too defiled the victim in his room at Afienya after inviting her there.
The complainant, the prosecution went on, later got a hint that the victim was staying with the first accused and had him and the second accused arrested by the Dansoman Police on November 3, 2008, and later brought to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Accra.
The case, he said, was initially reported as an abduction but in the course of the investigation, the victim testified that both the first and second accused persons had had series of sexual intercourse with her.
The victim was sent to the hospital for examination and treatment and a report on the victim indicated that she was pregnant, he added, saying that all efforts to get Patience Tackie to testify in the case had proved futile.
He said after investigations, the first and second accused persons were arrested, charged with the offence and brought before the court.
The case was adjourned to November 11, 2008.