[ 2016-11-23 ]

Police free two under-age girls from forced marriage
The Ashanti Regional Police Domestic Violence and
Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) has rescued two
under-aged girls from forced marriage.

The pair are both senior high school (SHS)
students and the police intervention followed a
tip-off.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Susanna
Dery, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Commander of the
Unit, who made this known to the Ghana News Agency
(GNA), Kumasi, said the girls are northerners.

She said they moved in to save one of the victims
a day before she was to be married off in Kumasi.

The other had just been married and sent to Accra,
but they managed to trace, free and get her back
to school.

DSP Dery said their parents had been arrested and
were assisting in police investigations.

She indicated that DOVVSU was 'very vigilant' and
would not relent in its effort to deal with all
cases of child abuse to give more protection to
children.

She advised parents to avoid giving out or forcing
under-age girls into early marriages and said that
could jeopardize their future.

On child maintenance, she said the Unit, this year
alone, had recorded more than 3, 000 cases of
non-maintenance cases, and reminded parents to
live up to their responsibility to their children.

Source - GNA

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