The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) circuit court has sentenced a mason apprentice to seven years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old house help at Atwima Nkoranza near Kumasi.
Emmanuel Kwadwo Mensah, 20, pleaded not guilty.
Police Inspector Martin Asenso told the court that the victim was a house help of one of the tenants in the house where the convict also lived at Atwima Nkoranza.
He said in March last year, the convict entered the room of the victim in the evening and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her.
The victim reported the matter to her mistress the following morning and when Mensah was questioned, he admitted entering the room but denied having sex with the girl.
The prosecutor said in November last year, the victim returned to her grandmother's house at Santasi in Kumasi after
maltreatment in the hands of her mistress and narrated to the grandmother how Mensah had been abusing her sexually.
The grandmother reported the matter to the queen of Santasi, who invited the victim and Mensah to her palace.
Inspector Asenso said Mensah denied having sexual intercourse with the victim but the queen not satisfied reported the matter to the police who arrested him.