Story & pix: Della Russel Ocloo, Tema
A 45-year-old Togolese has been grabbed by the Tema Regional Office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) in another reported case of paedophilia in the country.
The suspect, Mawuli Amegadzie, a mason by profession, is alleged to have defiled two children, aged eight and 11, at Kpone-Kokompe, near Tema.
According to the Tema Regional Co-ordinator of DOVVSU, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rebecca Nyamah, the suspect, on a number of occasions, allegedly lured the victims to his residence under the pretext of providing them with candies and children’s dolls and engaged them sexually by sucking their genitals after stripping them naked.
She said the complainant in the case, Mr Eric Kofi Amankwah, is the father of the children and resident of the community.
ASP Nyamah said Mr Amankwah received a report on his children’s constant visits to the suspect’s residence from a trader who also resides in the vicinity. Following earlier information of an alleged defilement case, for which the suspect was remanded in police custody last year but was released for lack of evidence, the complainant confronted the children over their association with the suspect.
Further interrogation by their father as to their new acquisition of children’s dolls and other playing materials led to the younger of the two confessing to receiving them as gifts from the suspect after he had sucked their genitals on each occasion.
A report was immediately lodged at DOVVSU, from where a team was dispatched which, with the help of the Kpone Police, managed to arrest the suspect after two hours of resistance, during which he bolted into a nearby bush on seeing the police approaching.
According to the police, Amegadzie admitted the offence in his caution statement and explained that he was attracted to young boys any time he saw them, following his persistent failure to get an erection around women as a result of a spell cast on him by his stepmother.
The suspect, according to ASP Nyamah, would be put before court immediately investigations were over.
She appealed to the general public to report the suspicious activities of people in their communities as part of moves to rid society of miscreants.
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