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William Mensah, a 33-year-old driver, has been dragged to court after he was said to have sodomised the 10-year-old sister of his girlfriend. The accused person, who was put before an Accra Circuit Court presided over Sedina Agbemava, was charged with four counts of indecent assault and defilement. He denied any wrongdoing and has been remanded in police custody to re-appear on March 28, 2013. Presenting the facts of the case, the prosecuting officer, Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire, who presented the facts of the case, stated that the complainant was the mother of the victim whom she and her sister lived with at Apapa in Labadi. He said the accused person lived on the same compound with the complainant and was the boyfriend of the victim�s elder sister, adding that the two had been in a relationship for some time now. According to him, the victim and her friends often watched television in the driver�s sitting-room. The chief inspector noted that between 2011 and 2012, Mensah invited the 10-year-old into his sitting-room and told her to lie on the floor and when she did, he took off his underwear and inserted his penis into her anus. The driver, afterwards, warned her not to tell anybody about the incident so she kept her ordeal a secret till her mother was informed that the victim had a smelly discharge emanating from her vagina and started wetting herself. He said the complainant called her daughter and examined her and saw some fluid emanating from her vagina and consequently asked her what the matter was but she failed to tell her mother her ordeal. The prosecutor noted that the complainant again asked the victim on February 20, 2013 and she narrated her ordeal so a complaint was lodged with the La Police. He said a form was issued to the victim to attend hospital while the case was later sent to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit. The driver was consequently arrested after police concluded investigations.