Farmer jailed 20 years for defiling a 13-year-old deaf and dump girl

A 30-year-old farmer identified as Kwasi Zachari alias Halidu has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for defiling a 13-year-old girl who is deaf and dumb. 

 Zachari pleaded guilty on the charge of defilement and was convicted on his own plea and handed this jail term accordingly by the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu. 

Prosecution, led by Police Chief Inspector Abraham Ayitey, stated that the complainant, a trader and mother of the victim, resides at Wassa Bawdie Adonnoi in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality with both the victim and Kwasi Zachari.

On December 17, 2024, at approximately 7:30 a.m., the complainant left the victim at home and attended a funeral service in the community.

During this time, Zachari, who was returning from his landlord’s house, encountered the victim and engaged her in conversation using sign language. He then lured her to an abandoned sawmill on the outskirts of town, where he sexually assaulted her.

After the act, Zachari gave the victim GH¢1.50 and took her back home.

Later, two children in the community, aged five and six, informed the complainant that they had seen the victim following Zachari towards the abandoned sawmill. Alarmed, the complainant immediately left the funeral grounds to search for her daughter.

Prosecution said while the complainant was scouting for the victim with the help of her sister and the two children when they chanced upon Zachari where the children pointed him out to the complainant as the one, they saw with the victim.  

He said the complainant assisted by her sister held Zachari and demanded for the victim, and where he confessed to them that he had sex with the victim in the abandoned sawmill shop.  

He said they arrested Zachari, took him to the Bawdie Police station and reported the incident to the officers on duty.  

Zachari was re-arrested and detained to assist investigations, while a police medical report form was issued to the complainant to send the victim to the hospital for examination, treatment, and report.  

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