'Good Samaritan' in trouble

Daily Graphic (Back Page) Frid. April 30/10

Story Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho
A ‘Good Samaritan’ who went to the aid of a junior high school (JHS) student who was being defiled by a man, allegedly ended up defiling her apparently because he was turned on by the nakedness of the victim.
The victim, a 15-year-old student, who wrote the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), had allegedly been defiled by another man at the Kpehe Roman School on Wednesday at around 3 a.m. when the victim was returning home after helping her mother who is a roadside food vendor.
Mohammed Sani, who is a 20-year-old butcher at the Amasaman slaughter house, is currently in police custody.
The Public Relations Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Inspector Irene Oppong, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that the suspect had been charged with defilement.
She, however, said the first rapist was nowhere to be found.
According to her, the victim’s mother was a food vendor at Kpehe near Kotobabi and she went there to assist her to sell and around 3 a.m. in the morning on Wednesday, her mother dispatched her to go and sleep.
Inspector Oppong said the girl left in the company of a young boy, a schoolmate, and they went through the Kpehe Roman School park.
She said on their way they met a man who at knifepoint asked the boy to give him his phone and the girl to release all the monies she had on her.
After they obliged and gave him the items which included a phone and GH¢56, the man sacked the young boy to go home and leave the girl with him.
She said after the boy had left the man defiled the girl and Mohammed Sani, who was on his way to the Mosque, chanced upon them and the first rapist ran away.
Seeing that he could not pursue the rapist, he went to assist the young lady and in his statement to the police, he said he was “sexually aroused by seeing the girl half naked” and did not know what came over him.
Luck was not on his side as the young boy who was earlier sacked by the first rapist went and raised an alarm for people to come to her aid.
The young lady, according to Inspector Oppong, had been hospitalised and was currently at home.