– She Was Defiled By A Blind man
A 13-year-old Primary Four Pupil of the Anankum Primary School at Sandema in the Builsa District, gave birth to a baby boy at the Sandema Hospital last weekend after having been defiled by a 65-year-old blind man nine months ago.

The defilement was reported to the police by the Department of Social Welfare and led to the arrest of the suspect, Atuebisah Aboluk, a resident of Kalbisa, near Sandema in November last year but he has since been on police enquiry bail.

Inspector Ali Seidu, Officer-in-charge of the Sandema Police Station told journalists that Miss Agatha Apok of the Department of Social Welfare co-incidentally met the defiled victim on July 18, 2002 at the Sandema Hospital, immediately after she gave birth.

According to Miss Apok, she discovered that the teenage mother, who looked severely malnourished, has also been abandoned by her parents.

She therefore decided to report the case again to the police. The suspect (Aboluk) who had earlier denied the allegation by the victim, later admitted having committed the offence. Later, the teenage mother narrated her ordeal at the hands of the man in tears, saying that she was threatened with death if she ever revealed the matter to ay other person.

According to the police, the suspect (Aboluk) was said to have grabbed another teenage girl and defiled her but she died and the neighbours had covered up the incident. The Police and the Department of Social Welfare are investigating the case to unearth the facts and to submit the docket to the attorney-General’s office for advise.