A driver, 27, who engaged in sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl at a Sowutuom church, was given a 15-year prison sentence.
Upon his appearance at the Police Headquarters’ Gender Based Violence Court, Enoch Mensah entered a guilty plea to the charge of defilement.
Using Mensah’s plea, the court found him guilty and punished him appropriately. In addition to the church grounds, Mensah is said to have defiled the victim four times at the complainant’s home.
Because the victim naively followed Mensah when he asked for her help and ultimately defiled the church, Detective Chief Inspector Opoku Aniagyei implored the court to impose a deterrent punishment.
A heavy punishment will deter like-minded individuals, the prosecution said, citing the rising number of defilement cases.
The complaint in the prosecution’s case is that the complainant, a shopkeeper who lives in Apotro, close to Sowutuom in Accra, is also the victim’s 14-year-old mother.
The prosecutor claimed that Mensah, a driver, lived nearby as well.
Assisting the accused in cleaning an unidentified church near Sowutum in June 2023 was the victim. Afterwards, the defendant Mensah shut up the church and had “unprotected sexual intercourse” with the victim in one of the offices while warning her not to say anything.
At the complainant’s home, this misconduct shockingly happened four more times. The complainant initiated an investigation on August 23, 2023, after seeing alterations in the victim’s conduct.
The complainant reported the event to the police when the victim disclosed the upsetting incidents. The victim’s medical needs were documented on a Police Medical form. In his caution statement, Mensah admitted to the crime after the police apprehended him in response to the medical report.
