15-year old girl sentenced to one year in prison

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July 30, 2016 1:32 PM

She was also fined an amount of GHC360 and made to sign a bond to be of good behaviour after the court found her to be guilty of organizing thugs to assault her teachers.

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A 15-year old class five pupil has been given a 12-month non-custodial sentence by a Juvenile Court in Accra.

The pupil of St John Primary School was accused of organizing some thugs to assault her teachers during school hours at Accra New Town.

According to the school’s administration, who were the plaintiffs, the 15- year old was asked to kneel down as punishment for an act of insubordination, but the pupil waked out of the class instead, only to returned with thugs.

The thugs brutalized teachers and some students of the school and stole some items like mobile phones and monies belonging to the teachers.

This comes after two of her accomplices who led the assault, were given a 12-month prison term each in hard labour.

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The others included suspects Hamza Mohammed and another identified as Swallah.

ASP Effia Tenge, the Accra Regional police spokesperson, confirmed to DAILY GUIDE that the class five pupil, together with Swallah and Hamza, were arrested and sent to the Kaneshie magistrate court where they all pleaded guilty to various counts of conspiracy and assault.

The two men were given their sentence but the girl, identified only as Aisha, was referred to the juvenile court for sentencing since she is a minor. On Thursday, the court passed the judgement against her.

Meanwhile, one of the suspects is allegedly on the run and yet to be arrested.

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