DCI-GHANA Defence for Children Internation
The Ashanti Regional Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mrs. Mercy Larbi, has called for concerted effort to give more protection to children – shield them from abuse and forced marriage. She said their fundamental rights could not continue to be violated with impunity. Speaking …
Read More »A-G delays committal proceedings of alleged killer of girl
The committal proceedings which will enable Lucas Agboyie, the man who has confessed to killing a seven-year-old girl, after which he had sex with the corpse, to stand trial at the High Court could not come off as expected yesterday. That was because the Attorney-General’s Department (A-G) requested for more …
Read More »Court orders Police to send lost sheep to Osu Children Home
There was drama at an Accra District Court when it ordered the Police to send a lost but found sheep to the Osu Children Home if its owner could not be traced by close of work on Friday. The court presided over by Mr Stephen Owusu cautioned the Police to …
Read More »27-year-old in court for inserting manhood into child’s mouth
Augustine Badu, a 27-year-old care taker who is accused of inserting his penis into the mouth of a three-year-old girl at East Legon has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, charged with indecent assault. Badu, however, pleaded not guilty. The victim is said to have vomited as result of the …
Read More »Appeals court Judge urges girls to speak out
An Appeals Court Judge, Justice Mrs Avril Lovelace-Johnson is advocating stronger voice for young women as a strategy to deepen greater public consciousness about the plight of the girl-child. Justice Lovelace-Johnson is also urging young women to speak out against obstacles inhibiting their growth and development. She was addressing the …
Read More »Electrician remanded for defilement
Half-Assini Magistrate Court in the Western Region, has remanded a 19-year old Electrician in two weeks prison custody for abducting and defiling a 15-year old girl. Sampson Ackah from Krisan near Eikwe in Ellembele District, pleaded guilty to the first charge. His plea to the second charge was not taken. …
Read More »Child marriage cases in Ghana alarming – UNAIDS
The UNAIDS Country Coordinator for Ghana, Girmay Haile, has revealed Ghana has potentially one of the world’s highest cases of child marriage. Speaking at the launch of the 7th Africa Conference on Sexual Health in Accra on Wednesday, December 22, Mr. Girmay Haile expressed concern about rising reports of child …
Read More »Gay Doctor’ dismissed; ordered to open defence
An Accra Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Court yesterday dismissed a motion to stay proceedings filed by lawyers of Dr Sulley Ali Gabass, the senior medical doctor at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi standing trial for sodomy. The court was emphatic that the pendency of an appeal which was …
Read More »Committee on the Rights of the Child examines the report of Ghana
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Ghana on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Presenting the report, Nan Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection …
Read More »Child prostitution increasing in Cape Coast-Minister
Child prostitution is booming in the Cape Coast metropolis, the Central Regional Minister, Mr. Aquinas Tawiah Quansah has stated, and also called for concerted efforts to address the problem. He said a study currently being conducted on child prostitution in Cape Coast, painted a gloomy picture of the activities of …
Read More »50-yr-old teacher rapes student, 15
A 15-year-old Junior High School student has been bleeding for the past three months after she was reportedly raped by her 50-year-old teacher. The teacher Korli Tetteh allegedly raped the girl in a farm field in Salemsi, a community in the Manya Krobo district of the Eastern region. Starr News …
Read More »3 Trafficked boys escape
Three trafficked boys working at Worotor in the Krachi West District of the Volta Region have escaped from their master due to the maltreatment meted out to them. The three are Wisdom Osabutey, 11 years, from Ada in the Greater Accra Region; Enock Edu, 13, from Enchi in the Western …
Read More »2 Old men caged for defiling girl, 5
Two old men who allegedly defiled a five-year-old Kindergarten girl at Effia, near Takoradi in the Western Region, were hauled before a Takoradi circuit court yesterday. The two men, Kofi Essoun, 60, a farmer and Nana Ahenkofi, 70, allegedly took turns to defile the poor girl sometime in December 2014. …
Read More »Apostolic Church to suspend elder over rape
The Apostolic Church in the Eastern region has begun processes to suspend one of its elders for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl. The suspect, Jonathan Okine, Elder of the Christ Apostolic Church at Akwaduuso, a farming community reportedly defiled the victim continuously at three different places including a structure for …
Read More »Court convicts father for neglecting daughter
The Kumasi-based Gender/Violence Court has convicted a man over his failure to live up to his responsibility to his three-year child. Kwabena Oduro, 40, was fined GH¢ 500.00 and was ordered to pay a cash of GH¢200.00 to the ex-wife, Ms Sabina Animah, as compensation. The court, presided over by …
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