Yaw Alhassan, a 67-year-old who had sex with a 12-year-old girl and impregnated her, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Alhassan, charged with defilement, pleaded guilty with explanation.
In his explanation to the Court, Alhassan admitted having sex with the victim on two occasions. Alhassan told the sitting judge, Mrs. Patricia Amponsah that it was the victim who visited him in his room, caressed and sat on him and then had sex with her.
Alhassan said relations of the victim, who was two months pregnant, wanted to abort the pregnancy for her so he had offered GHC500 and GHC280 on two occasions for the abortion, which cost GHC1, 500.
Alhassan, who is married with kids, therefore, prayed the Court to have mercy on him because he had kids who were attending school and the youngest, nine-year-old.
The Court initially gave Yaw Alhassan 21 years imprisonment, but an intervention by Captain Retired (Rtd) Nkrabeah Effah Darteh, saw a reduction of the sentence from 21 years to 20 years.
