Peter Mensah, a trader, who is accused of defiling a nine-year old pupil in an uncompleted toilet facility twice at Shipontele, near Amasaman has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court.

Charged with defilement Mensah has pleaded not guilty.

He is to reappear on October 3 before the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku.

Prosecuting Detective Inspector Kofi Atimbire who read the fact said the complainant is the father of the victim who resides at Akyem Segyimase in the Eastern Region.

The victim resides at Shipontele, near Amasaman with her mother. The accused person lived at Toman also in Amasaman.

Prosecution said during the month of July, while the victim was playing with her friends in the night in front of their house the accused called her under the pretext of sending her on an errand but lured her into an uncompleted toilet facility, near the victim’s house and asked the victim to stoop and he had sex with her.

Prosecution said after the act the accused person warned the victim not to inform anyone else she would die.

A week after the accused invited the victim to the same place and had sex with her.

On July 28, this year, the victim visited her father at Akyem Segyimase where she was taken ill and was rushed to the Kibi Government Hospital and she disclosed her ordeal to the complainant.

Detective Inspector Atimbire said the complainant reported the incident to the Police at Asiakwa where he was given a police extract and Police medical endorsed form to the Police at Amasaman and accused was picked up.