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15 years imprisonment for alleged girl defilement

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  • BEN 10 years ago

    'laws are effective as we are being made to believe, the girl’s parents would have had enough to provide TV for their own children to avoid a girl becoming a victim of rape because she visited somebody’s room to watch TV. ...
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  • ATOPA 10 years ago

    I WILL SUGGEST THAT THE CONVICT BE SET FREE IMMEDIATELY AS IT WAS NEVER PROVEN BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT THAT
    HE RAPED THE LITTLE GIRL.THE MORONIC COURT SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE OTHER KIDS WHO WERE PRESENT DURING THE ALLEGED CR ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A woman woke in the middle of the night to find her husband missing from their bed. She got out of bed and checked around the house. She heard sobbing from the basement. After turning on the light and descending the stairs, s ...
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  • Jeff 10 years ago

    so pathetic

  • Kelvin Lawson 10 years ago

    Bad, Bad the girl’s parents would have had enough to provide TV for their own children to avoid a girl becoming a victim of rape because she visited somebody’s room to watch TV. Equally, a responsible law of the state wo ...
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  • Kwame , Holland 10 years ago

    "There was a point in the course of the sitting when the Accused person asked to have the other three children who were present at the time, to give their own account to the court on what exactly happened on the fateful eveni ...
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  • Asabea 10 years ago

    It's amazing the kind of punishment meted out for some crimes in this country. Can't we adopt other forms of punishment such as fines, community service and others for such little crimes like stealing fowl, goat, farm produce ...
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  • NII ARMAH 10 years ago

    It is very pathetic reading this story.Having said this, it is not the first case, and it will not be the last case in a similar manner.There are thousands of innocent Ghanaians out there languishing in jail for offenses they ...
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  • Lolulou 10 years ago

    This is disgraceful state of affairs. With all the lawyers we have in Ghana I am very disappointed they aren't doing far more to clean up the system to ensure every Ghanaian has the right to justice!

  • The Mask 10 years ago

    NO DNA evidence? Why wasn't it collected. It would prove the claim true or false.
    Makes no sense. Ghana still has long way to go.

  • k.k 10 years ago

    we should know that in this nation Ghana justice is for the rich