A 17-year-old female student of Takoradi Senior High School
(name withheld) revealed in an interview that her biological father
broke her virginity and has been having s*xual intercourse with her for
the past nine months, at his Adiembra residence near Sekondi. According to the girl, her father who was sojourning in Spain
returned to Ghana December last year and that was when it all
started. “At the age of 16, I had not slept with any boy or man, but my
father returned from Spain last December and started having s*x with
me,” she said. The girl said her parents were divorced and her father was the one
taking care of her so he threatened to stop supporting her if she told
anybody. “If my father doesn’t pay my fees no one will do it. My mother
does not have the means to take care of me in school so I was afraid to
inform anybody about my ordeal; not even my mother,” the victim claimed. She also revealed that her father stopped her from going to church in
fear that she might inform some of the church leaders of what he had
been doing to her. The girl indicated that on Friday August 23, 2013, after she had
returned from school her father demanded to have s*x with her but she
refused and he gathered all her belongings including school uniforms,
text and exercise books and set them ablaze. “After that he still wanted
to have s*x with me so I run away to a neighbour’s house and it was
there that I broke the news to some of the residents.
It was learnt that personnel of the Domestic Violence and Victims
Support Unit (DOVSSU) of the Ghana Police Service in Sekondi yesterday
arrested the father and placed him in custody pending further
investigations, after a report was made. Also, a medical report form was
issued to the 17-year-old girl to attend hospital after which the
accused person was arrested.
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