Hohoe, Sept 28, GNA- A circuit court at Hohoe, on Thursday sentenced a 47-year-old public toilet toll collector to twelve-and -half years imprisonment for defiling a 11-year-old class three pupil at Kpando-Tokor.

Kwesi Sakpaku, who pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and pleaded for leniency, said he was drunk when the incident occurred. Chief Inspector Samuel Gbedema told the court presided over by Mr. Samuel Sarpong-Appiah that Sakpaku defiled the girl on September 23, at about 1930 hours, when she went to the place of convenience at Kpando-Tokor.

He said Sakpaku followed the victim to the female apartment of the facility and forcibly defiled her. Chief Inspector Gbedema said the father of the victim arrested the accused and handed him over to the police.