An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 58-year-old steel bender, Michael Asante to 21 years imprisonment for defiling a seven-year-old girl at Nungua, Accra.
Michael Asante charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty.
However, the court presided over by Mrs. Christina Cann, pronounced him guilty at the conclusion of the trial.
According to Inspector Opoku Aniagyei’s presentation of the facts, the complainant is the victim’s uncle and both lived in the same area of Nungua.
The victim went to the restroom and toilet outside their home on May 3, 2021, in the evening to relieve herself.
The prosecution said, Asante followed the victim, lured her into the bathroom, and had sex with her on the bare floor.
The complainant, who accidentally passed by the scene saw Asante and the victim.
It said Asante on seeing the complainant run out of the bathroom.
The prosecution said when the complainant engaged the victim, she told her that Asante had had several intercourses with her on several occasions.
According to the report, the complainant took the victim to the Nungua Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service and filed a complaint.
The prosecution said the Police issued a medical report form to the complainant to seek medical care for the victim and later arrested Asante.
