Former student of Winneba Community Nurses School on rape charges

Former student of Winneba Community Nurses School on rape charges

November 20, 2009
The Winneba Municipal Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Martin Asamoah, who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Winneba, said the names of the students were being withheld for security reasons.

He said sometime this month, the students together with others, came to re-sit their various papers on November 16 2009.

ASP Asamoah said on Monday November 16 2009, the female student reported to the Police that while standing outside the yard of her house in the evening of Friday November 13, the male student took advantage to the darkness of the place, pulled a knife on her and raped her.

He said as soon as the school authorities heard the report from the Police, they handed over the student to the Police, without allowing him to take the examination with the explanation that "they would not tolerate a rapist at the school".

The Police Commander said friends of the male students, who had been in Police custody since Monday, told the Police during their investigations that at the time that the girl claimed the man was raping her, their friend was asleep.

ASP Asamoah said efforts were being made to send the suspect to the Circuit Court at Agona Swedru immediately for the court to go through the matter.

GNA