A suspect in a defilement case in Bolgatanga has been denied bail again by the Bolgatanga Circuit Court on, Monday July 4, 2022 presided over by Alexander Graham.
The suspect identified as Pastor John Amoah of the Redeemer Church in Bolgatanga has been remanded into prison custody after he appeared in court today (July 4, 2022). Prior to being moved to the Navrongo prisons, the pastor, who has been charged with defilement to-wit he pleaded not guilty, was in the custody of the Zuarungu Police.
The court refused the accused bail based on the nature of the crime and subsequently asked that he reappears on July 13, 2022.
Pastor John was in June remanded into police custody for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 13-year-old JHS One (1) pupil in a community (name withheld) in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region.
The alleged defilement is said to have taken place in December 2021 after his wife left the house to attend Bible School and barely a month after the girl moved in to stay with him while attending school in the township since her house is far from the main township where the school is located.
The 13-year-old in an interview with Dreamz News explained that the pastor said he liked her and was ready to give her the needed support.
The alleged victim’s mother is mentally ill and no longer in a good position to take care of her and this made her to withdraw from the private school she was previously attending. As a result of the pregnancy, she is back home to be with her grandmother who now struggles to take care of the three children of her sick daughter.
Though now in her third trimester, the girl and her grandmother are finding it difficult to adequately prepare for the birth of the child.
The suspect is being represented in court by Richard Adazebra of the Legal Aid Commission, who wrote to inform the court about his absence for sitting today.
Meanwhile, Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana, an NGO based in the Upper East Region, is keenly following the case together with Yvonne Wunchua of the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council and has expressed readiness to support the grandmother of the survivor to be able to cater for the needs of the young girl and that of her two other siblings due to their vulnerability.
