Kumasi, April 30, GNA- A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded Kofi Aboagye 37, a porter and security man in prison custody for allegedly attempting to defile a 13-year-old Junior High School (JHS) Student. He pleaded not guilty and would re-appear on May 13.

Assistant Superintendent of Police George Appiah-Sakyi prosecuting, told the court presided over by Madam Wilhelmina Hammond that, the complainants were journalists and victim was a form two student of Saint Joseph Catholic JHS at Elmina in the Central Region.

He said the accused was a porter and a security man of an uncompleted building at the Kumasi Kejetia Terminal. The prosecution said sometime in April this year, a woman from Kumasi only known as Maame Mary and now at large, went to Elmina where she met the victim and promised her a job in Kumasi.

He said the victim became interested in the job and followed the woman to Kumasi but was told on arrival in Kumasi that she would work in a brothel but she refused therefore, the woman became annoyed and abandoned her at the Kejetia Terminal.

The prosecution said the victim who became stranded spent her first night at the terminal and the following day found a friend another 13-year-old girl and both of them spent the night together in front of the uncompleted building where the accused was on guard.

He said at dawn the accused attempted to defile the victim but she resisted and the next morning, they were found loitering at the terminal by the journalists who sent them to the Domestic Violence and Victims' Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Kumasi.

The prosecution said a report was made and the accused arrested and after investigations charged with the offence. Meanwhile, officials of DOVVSU have appealed to the public especially relatives of the victim to contact the Unit for their daughter who is now at the Kumasi Children's Home.