[ 2017-10-24 ]

Gender Ministry must wake up to deliver justice to defiled 4-year-old – Activist
Gender activist and Executive Director of the Ark
Foundation has called on the Gender Ministry to
wake up to its responsibility following the
defilement of a 4-year-old girl.

And enraged Angela Dwamena said the two must be
provided with shelter because drawing media
attention to the crime could attract the
displeasure of suspects and others within the
community.

“This girl and her mother need to be withdrawn
from where they are,” she said explaining they
will face unnecessary discrimination. 

Distressed Monica Nyarko, mother of the 4-year-old
girl defiled by a community member at Assin
Adadientem in the Central Region is calling for
justice.

She has accused a chief in the area of obstructing
justice as she alleges the chief told her, the
community gods have declared the suspect
innocent.

Madam Nyarko told Joy News’ Maxwell Agbagba at
the St Francis-Xavier Hospital in Assin Fosu that,
her daughter could barely walk due to pain.


The pain is taking a toll on her health as she
looks drained with bandages of the intravenous
therapy still in her hand.

The mother explained that she travelled for a
funeral only to come back to meet her daughter
defiled by an 18-year-old.

According to her, when she asked what had
happened, the girl told her mother one Kwabena
had inserted his manhood in her in a toilet
facility.

Kwabena reportedly sent the eight-year-old elder
sister of the defiled girl to buy him a coconut
and further warned the little girl inside the
toilet not to respond when her sister comes back
calling her.

He told her he would kill her with a stick if she
responded. After the act, he carried her on his
shoulder and dropped her at the back of her home
because she could not walk.

The defiled girl bled for three days after the
incident and could not pass urine until recently.

Reacting to the development, the gender
activist said although some success has been
chalked since the passage of the Domestic
Violence Act in 2007, the current case in
Assin Adadientem is more of a criminal matter
than a domestic violence issue. 

Mrs Dwamena said the Gender Ministry must use
the benefit of hindsight to act swiftly to deliver
justice to the girl and her mother.

She charged the Ministry to ensure that all the
institutions that matter do take their
responsibility seriously and do as they are
mandated to do.

Source - Myjoyonline.com

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