A Kumasi Central Prison inmate, Robert, regrets cautioning some teenage girls who were planning to masturbate. He was sentenced to 12-year imprisonment for defiling one of the girls.
The unemployed Senior High School graduate said he over-heard the teenagers planning to go to their usual meeting place to masturbate as they often do. He said one of the girls lied to her mother that he raped her after he merely threatened them he will expose them.
“I woke-up to the noise of the girls when I was sleeping in my room. When I got closer to drive them away, I heard them deciding to go to a chapel to masturbate. I told them I will report them to their parents but one of them said if I do she would lie that I raped her. I did not take it serious so I drove them away but the girl went on to do what she told me.” He told crimecheckghana.
Poor Robert said he was eventually arrested by the police when he was on his way to visit his father. He claimed that when he was taken to court, the parents of the girl bribed a doctor to falsify the medical test result of the girl which proved that she was raped leading to his sentence.
Robert said his father refused to pay for his release from police custody after the family of the girl asked him to pay a ransom of Three Thousand Ghana Cedis for them to drop the charges against him.
“When I was in police custody, my sister and my parents convinced me to admit that I raped her so that the police will let me go but it rather infuriated them. The parents of the girl went ahead to bribe a doctor with Three Hundred Ghana Cedis to forge their daughter’s medical test result as evidence to the court that she was indeed raped.” He said.
He said his sentence was reduced by a year after his father appealed his conviction.
Crime Check Foundation, CCF’s Petty Offenders project has paid the fines of Six Hundred and Eleven petty offenders leading to their release.
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