From Nana Konadu Agyeman, Koforidua
A circuit court in Koforidua has sentenced a 25-year-old corn mill operator, Ebenezer Agbodzi, to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a seven-year-old girl.
The convict pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement.
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Moses Ayao told the court, presided over by Ms Wilhelmina Hammond, that the convict and the victim and her parents stayed in the same vicinity at Apenkwa, a suburb of Koforidua.
According to him, on May 26, this year, the mother of the kindergarten pupil, as usual, sent her to the convict’s corn mill to grind corn for her.
On reaching the shop, the victim met only Agbodzi, who assisted her to put down the bowl of corn she was carrying. He later put her on a bench in the shop and had carnal knowledge of her.
Agbodzi, after defiling the victim, milled the corn for her and sent her home.
On reaching the house, the victim’s mother interrogated her as to why she had kept so long, after which the girl narrated the ordeal she had been subjected to by the convict, the prosecutor stated.
The mother immediately reported the case to the police, who issued her with a medical form to send the young girl for medical examination and treatment at the Eastern Regional Hospital.
Chief Inspector Ayao said when the convict was later arrested, he denied ever having sex with the victim, saying that he only inserted his finger into her private part for a brief period.
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