Girl remanded in custody for dumping baby
Trader charged with infringement of copyright law
Third person involved in murder case arrested
Girl remanded in custody for dumping baby
Tuobodom(Brong Ahafo) 17 Aug '99
The Tuobodom community tribunal has remanded in custody an 18-year-old girl, Elizabeth Yeboah, for allegedly dumping her eight months- old baby boy into a pit latrine at Nsuta, near Techiman.
Elizabeth, whose plea was changed from guilty to not guilty, will reappear before the court on August 18.
She told the court that it was not her intention to dump her son into the pit.
The baby was rescued from the latrine by a team of police and fire service personnel from Techiman and Nsuta. He is said to be responding to treatment at the Techiman Holy Family Hospital.
Police Chief Inspector S.Y. Jeburi told the tribunal chaired by Mr Richard Kogyaphwa that Elizabeth is the daughter of Pastor Paul Donkor of The True Church of Ghana at Nsuta.
Police Chief Inspector Jeburi said Elizabeth habitually locked up her son in the room whenever she wants to go out.
The prosecution said the accused later adopted a strategy to dose the baby with drugs to prevent him from crying.
A visitor who called on Elizabeth on August 10 wanted to see the baby but she told her (visitor) that baby was asleep in the room.
The visitor did not find the baby in the room and she pressed to know the boy's whereabouts.
At this point Elizabeth, the prosecution said, confided in her visitor that she had dumped the baby into a toilet and warned her to keep it a secret or get killed by "Botwerewa" the powerful shrine in the district.
Chief Inspector Jeburi said the friend informed the police who led the accused to the pit into which the baby was dumped.
The police and firemen succeeded in retrieving the boy alive but with slight head injuries, Inspector Jeburi added.
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Trader charged with infringement of copyright law
Accra (Greater Accra) 17 Aug. ’99
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Monday sentenced Marrof Jallo, a trader, to a fine of one million cedis when he pleaded guilty to a charge of infringement of the copyright law.
Jallo, 25, will go to prison for two years if he fails to pay the fine.
The tribunal, chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson-Yeboah, ordered that 107 uncensored pornographic video cassettes seized from the accused be confiscated and sent to the Censorship Board for instruction.
Police Detective Chief Inspector Edward Antwi said on July 24, the complainant, Mr Hammond Mensah, a video producer who lives in Accra, reported to the police headquarters that his video films, as well as some Nigerian films that he has the exclusive right to market in Ghana were being pirated.
The prosecutor said police went out with the complainant to Opera Square in Accra where Laila, a salesgirl, who was offering pirated and uncensored pornographic films for sale was arrested. However no pirated films of Mr Mensah, also known as HM was found.
Chief Inspector Antwi said Laila told police that Jallo gave her films to sell at 5,500 cedis each.
He said police later arrested Jallo who admitted the offence.
Police said the accused did not obtain approval from the Censorship Board of the Ministry of Communications.
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Third person involved in murder case arrested
Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 17 August ’99
A Kumasi Circuit Tribunal on Monday adjourned to August 20 the case in which two butchers have been charged with murdering Alex Owusu, a shoe seller in Kumasi.
The two accused persons, Alhaji Azumah, 26 and Maxwell Yaw Tanko, 22, have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder.
The tribunal chaired by Mr J. A. Abanga adjourned the case after Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Lawrence Oppong had informed the tribunal that a third person has been arrested in connection with the crime.
DSP Oppong said the Police needed sometime to finish with investigations following the arrest of Yacubu Tambele, 37, the third accused person.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 17 Aug. ’99
A 37-year-old driver of the Audit Service, (name withheld) was remanded in custody on Monday by an Accra Circuit Tribunal for allegedly defiling his six-year-old daughter.
Inspector Yartey Tawiah, station officer of the Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU), said the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.
According to Inspector Tawiah, the mother of the victim abandoned her matrimonial home as a result of
battering and left the daughter with her father at their Kwashieman residence.
On June 23, this year, the accused informed a neighbour, Cecelia Darkwah, that his daughter was unwell.
When she examined the child, she detected that she had a sore in her private part.
When questioned, the girl revealed that on June 18 her father forcibly had sex with her.
A report was made to WAJU and Asamoah was arrested.
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