An Accra circuit court has ordered the police to produce the complainant in the case in which a mason is being tried for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old step daughter at Nungua, a suburb of Accra.
The order followed a disclosure by the prosecution that the victim had said that the allegation made against Isaac Tetteh, the accused, was not true.
According to the prosecutor, Detective Inspector Kofi Atimbire, the complainant claimed that the victim had confessed to her.
He told the court, presided over by Mrs. Ruby Naa Akwerley Quaison, that the police had also concluded their investigations into the case.
The judge however, adjourned sitting until 13 September, 2016, for the prosecution to produce the victim and the complainant in court.
The case of the prosecution is that the complainant is a mother of the victim and resident of Ashaiman, near Tema.
The accused, the prosecution said, is the husband of the complainant.
Two weeks ago, the victim, who lives with her biological father at Ashaiman, went to look for her mother but did not find her because she had packed out of the house as a result of a misunderstanding.
Due to her mother’s absence, the victim started loitering about and was sent to the police station by a Good Samaritan who opted to take care of her (victim) while the police conducted investigation to locate her mother (complainant).
However, during the victim’s stay with the Good Samaritan, she sneaked out on three occasions to see whether she could locate her mother at the house of her stepfather.
Detective Inspector Atimbire said Tetteh on all the three occasions, had sex with the victim. When the victim was finally reunited with the complainant, she narrated her ordeal to her.
The victim’s mother lodged a complaint with the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service and Isaac Tetteh was apprehended while a medical form was issued to the victim to seek medical attention.
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