Defilement: Jail term for convict reduced
The convict, Oppong Yeboah was arrested in March of 2018 for defiling a six-year-old girl.
The Sunyani High Court has reversed a prison sentence of a 22-year-old man who was convicted for defilement to seven years, the minimum punishment for the offence of defilement under the Criminal Offences Act-1960 (Act 29).
The case in question was an appeal before the court, in which the convict, Justice Oppong Yeboah, sentenced to eight (8) years to prison by a Circuit Court in Dormaa Ahenkro in December 2018, was seeking a reduction of his sentence.
Appearing before the Sunyani High Court, defense counsel, Mr. Samuel Nyamekye Vasco told the court his client was not mentally sound at the time he committed the offence.
Oppong Yeboah was arrested in March of 2018 for defiling a six-year-old girl. According to prosecutors who recounted the facts of the case to the court, the convict was chased by community members after a trader sounded an alarm about the incident. Medical examination of the victim at the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital is also said to have confirmed the incident of rape.
