Benjamin Narh Okunor, a 64-year-old resident of Kpone-Bawaleshe in the Greater Accra Region, is on the run, after allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl.
A teacher at the Kpone-Bawaleshe Primary School, about a fortnight ago, drew the attention of the authority to the victim’s ordeal, after noticing how oftentimes the little girl visited her office in a month to request for a sanitary pad.
The victim [to be referred to as Aku] confided in the teacher that her 64-year-old foster father had been having sex with her and her 14-year-old sister, since 2020 when parts of Greater Accra were locked down as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She alleged that whenever Mr. Narh wanted to have sex with either of them, he asked them to send a book to his room. Aku said neither of them could disclose their ordeal to anybody, because their foster father often pointed a gun at them, threatening to shoot them should they tell anybody.
It was until the teacher wanted to know why Aku collected more sanitary pads in a month that she narrated her suffering at home. The matter was, first and foremost, confirmed by Ernestina Ohenewaa Larbi, Headmistress of the Kpone-Bawaleshe Presbyterian Primary School, on Monday, June 20, 2022, when The Chronicle visited the school.
Hosted by the Headmistress and one other female teacher in her office, Madam Ernestina said after the school authorities had noticed weird virginal fluids discharged from Aku, and the narration of her ordeal, they reported the matter to the Social Welfare Department, which invited Aku’s biological mother to disclose the act to her.
However, she said Aku’s mother’s plea to allow her and the family to settle the matter at home provoked the Social Welfare Department to report a case of defilement to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Shai-Osudoku Divisional Police Command, Dodowa.
The CID in charge of the case is Millicent of the DOVVSU of the Dodowa Divisional Police Command where The Chronicle visited on Monday, June 20, 2022.
At the Command, the Divisional Commander, Mr. Ntsor, confirmed that the alleged defilement had been reported to his outfit by the Social Welfare Department, but said the medical report form and case had been referred to the National Headquarters.
The suspect, he added, was presently at large, “but if you want further details of the case, please go to the Police Headquarters,” he concluded in a brief response in his office.
Aku was examined by the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Dodowa, and there Dr. Kennedy Brightson, Medical Director, told The Chronicle that from his examination it was obvious that Aku was sexually active and noticed a torn and healed hymen.
He said Aku was at the facility with Detective Millicent of the DOVVSU, Shai-Osudoku Divisional Police Command.
Aku is currently in the care of an orphanage
