W/R : One of the two Asankragwa SHS teachers granted bail of GHC 10,000 with two sureties over rape case
W/R : One of the two Asankragwa SHS teachers granted bail of GHC 10,000 with two sureties over rape case
Two teachers of Asankragwa SHS who were last week remanded for allegedly raping two form one students appeared in court today Wednesday 20th July, 2022.
Asankrangwa District Magistrate Court in Western region last week remanded two teachers of the Asankrangwa Senior High School into police custody for allegedly raping and assaulting two first year students of the school.
Suspect, Augustine Swanzy Oduro who was charged with Indecent Assault, contrary to Section 203 of the Criminal Offences Act (29/60), have been granted bail of GHC10,000 with two sureties of which both must be government workers with GHC 2,000 salary a month.
Meanwhile Ernest Donkor who have been charged with rape, contrary to Section 97 of the Criminal Offences Act (29/60) was denied bail.
According to the court, it’s has no power to grant Donkor bail and refer him to seek for bail at high court.
Reading the brief fact to the court presided over by His Worship Justice Augustine Fiifi Donful, last week, ASP J. A. Kwarkye said Ernest Donkor, 28, is a Physics teacher and Augustine Swanzy Oduro, 34, a History teacher at the school.
The victims, 15 and 16, (name withheld) are first year students at the same school.
The complainant, Daniel Quayson Junior, according to the prosector, is the Assistant Headmaster at Asankrangwa Senior High School.
On Thursday, July 14, 2022, during the Wassa Amenfi SHS Inter-School competition held at the Asankrangwa Senior High School, the two suspects took the victims out of the school campus and bought new dresses for them to wear to be able to take them out to celebrate one of the victims’ birthday.
About 2:00pm on the same day, the suspects booked a hotel at Wassa Dunkwa near Asankrangwa.
The two suspects bought a Malta Guinness drink for the victims.
Suspect Ernest Donkor took the 16-year-old victim to hotel and booked a room for themselves in a quest to have a conversation with her, whilst suspect Augustine Swanzy Oduro also took the 15-year-old victim to another room of the same hotel .
The 16-year-old victim in the course of the conversation excused herself to visit the washroom and left her Malta Guinness drink with suspect Ernest Donkor in the room.
The victim returned from the washroom and after drinking the Malta Guinness drink, fell dizzy and fell asleep.
She wake-up later and found herself on the bed naked with blood stains in between her thighs.
Suspect Augustine Swanzy Oduro while in the room made sexual body contacts with the 15-year-old victim by touching her breasts and buttocks.
The victim managed to run out of the room and later the two suspects brought the two victims back to the school campus.
On their way to the campus, suspect Ernest Donkor promised to buy iPhone 7plus, pizza and food for the 16-year-old victim and warned them not to tell anyone about what happened at the hotel.
The victims on the same day in the evening, reported the incident to the Assistant Headmaster, who is the complainant.
On the 15th of July, the complainant with the victims and assistance from police, arrested the suspects to Asankrangwa Police Station and lodged a complaint.
Police medical forms were issued to the complainant on behalf of the 16-year-old victim to attend hospital for medical examination.
The case has been adjourned to next two weeks Wednesday, 3rd August 2022.
By Kofi Mensah Abrampa K.M.A Obour FM
