Enoch

The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced Enoch Amponsah, a 28-year-old teacher at a private basic school at Kpong, to 12 years’ imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl.

He pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement at the court presided over by Mr Kwasi Appiatse Abaidoo.

Police Chief Inspector Daniel Apedo, said on October 19, 2023, the victim went for a weekend class organised by the school, and after closing, the accused told the victim to get him his laptop from the office.

The accused then followed her, removed her underwear, had sexual intercourse with her and warned her not to tell anyone else he would be punished.

He said the next day, the accused person lured the victim to his house which was adjacent the school, had another intercourse with her and repeated the act again on Novem­ber 4, which caused the victim pain such that she could not walk prop­erly.

Upon reaching home, her mother detected changes in the walking of her daughter, and when interrogat­ed the victim said, “Sir Enoch,” as they affectionately called him, had sexual intercourse with her several times.

The accused person was arrested, and in his caution statement, ad­mitted having intercourse with the victim several times.

Meanwhile, two teachers, who forged Judicial Service official receipts, have been sentenced to six years imprisonment each by an Accra Circuit Court.

Lordfred Heward Mills, the main architect of the crime was jailed in absentia while Lawrence Ansu Asante, the second accused person, was escorted by the Police to jail. This was after the court presided over by Mrs Afia Owusua Appiah found them guilty on the charges of conspiracy to wit uttering of forged documents and uttering forged doc­uments at the end of the trial.

The prosecution, led by Inspec­tor Wisdom Alorwu, told the court that the complainant Eric Ansah Agyei, was a Pastor and a resident of Aburi.

It said Mills resided at Bubuashie and Asante, a resident of James- Town, were sureties in the case of Republic verses Jeffery Wilson Ofori, which was pending before Circuit Court four, then presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh, now deceased.

The court heard that in June 2021, the complainant gave GH¢3, 500 to the accused persons, now convicts, to be paid on behalf of Jeffery Wilson Ofori, who was anac­cused person in a case.

The prosecution said the accused persons (convicts) then hatched a plan to forge an official Judicial Service receipt and failed to pay the money to the court. It said the convicts then contacted one Boakye Boateng, who got them forge the Judicial Service official receipts.

It said the convicts later submit­ted a Judicial Service official re­ceipt with the number 19/0263336 dated June 11, 2021, with a face value of GHC3, 500.

The prosecution said they then handed over the receipt to the prosecutor, Assistant Superinten­dent of Police (ASP) Rita Asaah.

On November 23, 2021, the prose­cutor presented the said receipt to the court, but it was rejected, with the judge ordering for the arrest of the convicts.

They were consequently escorted to the community 18 Police Station where they were detained for fur­ther investigations.

The prosecution said Mills men­tioned one Boakye Boateng now at large as the one who issued them with the receipts at a fee of GH¢500. It said the remaining

GH¢3,000 was shared between the convicts. In their caution state­ments, the convicts admitted the offences before an independent witness.-—GNA