Driver imprisoned for defiling a 14-year-old girl

The Tarkwa Circuit Court has convicted a driver who molested a 14-year-old girl in his taxicab with the registration number GE 2022-17 to 10 years in jail with hard labor.

Samuel Implame, a 20-year-old man accused of defilement, entered a guilty plea to the allegation, and the court upheld his conviction.

The complainant is a food vendor, the victim's mother lives in Nankaba, and Implame lives on cemetery road, all of which are located in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality, according to the prosecution's police chief inspector Joseph Lartey.

The victim boarded the accused's Toyota Corolla taxicab in Number Three, a Prestea neighborhood, at around 2100 hours on August 22nd of this year to travel to Nankaba.

According to him, the accused refused to drive the victim where she needed to go and instead drove her into the neighborhood, where she felt unsafe and began yelling for help.

To keep her from drawing notice from the public, the convict immediately rolled out the car's tinted window glass.

According to Chief Inspector Lartey, the accused had an intercourse with the victim inside the car after forcing her to remove her underwear and parking the car in an isolated spot in Enyinam at around 2330 hours.

Implame continued to harass the victim while they were in the cab, taking them to a location close to the Ankobra bungalows.

The accused, who believed his objective was complete, allegedly drove the victim to her destination on August 28 at around 1:00 a.m. and then fled.

Chief Inspector Lartey claimed that the girl told her mother about her experience in tears after returning home because she was unable to bear the discomfort.

The complainant filed a report with the Prestea police, and she was given a medical document to request treatment for the victim.

The prosecution claimed that after examining the victim at the Prestea Government hospital, a medical officer signed the medical form and gave it to the police.

He stated Implame was later captured by the police from his hiding place and that while being questioned, he claimed the victim had consented to have intercourse with him.

The taxi was transferred to the police station and seized after being discovered abandoned by the side of the road in Modern City in Prestea, according to Chief Inspector Lartey.