Nsawam, May 2, GNA - The Nsawam Circuit Court on Monday sentenced Daniel Kwadwo Quarcoo Aryee, 51, a teacher of the Nsawam Methodist Primary School to 21 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his maidservant and escaping from lawful custody when he was being escorted. Aryee pleaded guilty.

Prosecuting, Police Inspector Alex Cosmos told the court, presided over by Mrs Elizabeth Ankomah that the victim has stayed with accused for seven years.

Inspector Cosmos said last year the victim complained of sexual harassment to the accused person's wife but Aryee denied the allegation. The prosecution said that the accused person has two wives and they all live at different places in Accra and visit the husband every weekend at Nsawam.

Inspector Cosmos said the accused took advantage of the absence of the wives and has been sexually assaulting the victim anytime he feels like having sex and often beat the victim when she refused. The prosecutor said about three weeks ago, the victim who could not bear the harassment any longer and reported the behaviour of the teacher to his wife in Accra.

The wife ordered the maidservant who had stayed with their husband for almost seven years to leave the teacher's house and report to the Police.

The prosecution said the accused was arrested but he escaped from lawful custody and was re-arrested.