A 17-year-old female
student of Takoradi Senior High School (name withheld)
has confessed to DAILY GUIDE in an interview that her
biological father has been having sexual intercourse with
her for the past nine months.
The girl claimed that she was a virgin but her father,
who was sojourning in Spain and returned to Ghana in
December last year, broke her virginity at his Adiembra
residence near Sekondi, where he had sexual
intercourse with her on several occasions.
“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 sex with me,” the 17-year-old girl alleged.
Asked why she did not inform her mother of the alleged
abominable act by her father, the girl indicated that her
parents had divorced and that it was her father who
was taking care of her. He threatened to stop paying
her fees 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.
The 17-year-old girl told DAILY GUIDE that she is a
Methodist but her father had been preventing her from
going to church, thinking that she might inform some of
the church leaders of what he had been doing to her.
She noted that about two weeks ago her father made
an attempt to sleep with her after she had returned
from school but she refused and he plugged an electric
iron and placed the heated metal on her right shoulder
and thigh, resulting in serious injuries.
The girl indicated that on Friday August 23, 2013, after
she had returned from school her father demanded to
have sex 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 sex 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 and they also
decided to call DAILY GUIDE to publish the story for the
whole world to know what my father had been doing to
me,” she revealed.
When Daily Guide arrived in the Adiembra community at
about 7:00pm last Friday, scores of residents who had
heard the story were seen in groups discussing it.
After narrating her ordeal to Daily Guide, the young lady
begged to be taken to her mother at Fijai near Sekondi.
There the victim broke the news to her mother, Auntie
Mansa.
The mother, who broke into tears upon hearing the
story, gave the name of the father as Samuel Otoo
Hughes. She queried her daughter for hiding such an
abominable act by the father from her all this while.
Daily Guide 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.
Daily Guide also gathered that a medical report form
was issued to the 17-year-old girl to attend hospital
after which the accused person was arrested.
A source at the Sekondi DOVSSU confirmed the arrest
but declined to give further details stressing that
investigations into the case were still ongoing.
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