A 22-year-old driver who allegedly defiled a 13-year-old class six pupil and afterwards locked her up for three days and nights in a room with no food or water, was on Monday remanded into prison custody by a circuit court in Cape Coast.
Nana Yaw Amoah, a driver, pleaded not guilty to defilement and would be re-arraigned on July 5.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Samuel Oduro Kwarteng-Addae told the court that last Friday at about 2100 hours Amoah went to drop his mate at Assin Brasiako where he met his step sister one Joyce Mensah together with the victim.
He said Amoah offered to buy food for them in town and asked that they joined his car with a promise to send them back to their house and they agreed.
The prosecutor alleged that instead Amoah drove them to his house and gave his sister GH�3 to buy food in town and when she left he locked the door and forcibly had sexual intercourse with the girl.
When his sister returned with the food, she knocked on the accused perdon's door several times but there was no response.
Amoah suspected his sister would raise the alarm so he took the victim to a different room in the same house and locked her up and came back to his room to sleep.
Mr Kwarteng-Addae said the accused person's sister later informed the girl's mother who also came and knocked on his door and when Amoah opened the door
the girl was not in the room.
The prosecutor alleged the victim shouted for help on the third day and passers-by forced the door open and took her to the hospital and made a
report to the police.