An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old Kente weaver, Gideon Galle to 25 years in prison for defiling two minors in turns at Agbogba in Accra, both of whom are 12 years of age.
The convict adopted a kidnap-like strategy, tied his victims and had sex with the two, one after the other on the same mattress.
He was sentenced by the court presided over by Mrs. Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye after he pleaded guilty to two counts of defilement.
In her sentencing, Mrs. Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye noted that the convict was grown enough and should have gotten married instead of defiling vulnerable girls, an act, the court considered as abominable and stinking.
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Prosecutor, Inspector Judith Asante narrated to the court that, the complainant was a trader and her daughter was the first victim who is currently in class six whilst the other victim was in class five.
Inspector Asante said the convict lives in the same vicinity with complainant and the two victims.
She said on September 4, 2017 at about 20:00 hours whilst both victims were returning home from the complainant’s drinking bar at Abokobi after watching a telenovela, the convict trailed them.
According to prosecutor, the convict kept following the victims until they got home. The first victim gave their apartment key to the second victim to open the door whilst she urinated behind the house and joined her.
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The prosecutor said as soon as the second victim opened the door, the convict, secretly entered the house and hid in the kitchen. After urinating, the first victim entered the apartment and locked the trap door.
Galle came out from the kitchen and tied her hands to her back with a rope and covered her mouth with a rag and did same thing to the second victim who attempted to check on her colleague.
According to Inspector Asante Galle pulled the two victims to the hall and had sex with them in turns on a mattress on the floor.
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After the act, Galle untied them and offered them GH¢10.00 to purchase a long broom which got destroyed after the first victim tried to hit his head with it whilst Galle was having sex with the second victim.
Galle also warned the victims not to disclose the act to anyone else he will kill them. The victims who could not stand the ordeal informed the complainant who subsequently reported the incident to the Police.
A day after reporting the incident, the complainant spotted the convict and she raised an alarm leading to the arrest of Galle.