Alleged American Paedophile Grabbed

Patrick Ken Larbash — Suspect

A 65-year-old American who is alleged to have defiled eight children at Adjomakope, near Sege in the Dangme East District, has been arrested and arraigned before the Tema Circuit Court.

The suspected paedophile, Patrick Ken Larbash, who denied the charge, has been remanded in custody to reappear on September 22, 2009.

According to the Tema Regional Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rebecca Nyamah, the suspect allegedly often lured the victims aged between three and 12 years to his residence on the pretext of providing them with food and candies.

In the process, he allegedly engaged the children in sexual encounters by stripping himself naked for the children to suck his genitals while a digital camera had been set up to record the act.

ASP Nyamah told the Daily Graphic in Tema that her outfit recently received complaints from the Greater Accra Regional office of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs of the suspect’s activities.

Following the complaints, the regional department organised a sensitisation workshop on the Domestic Violence Law, Act 723 for residents of Adjomakope.

At the end of the workshop, some children within the community narrated to the officials the ordeal they had been subjected to by the suspect.

Subsequently the officials lodged a complaint at DOVVSU, which investigated the matter leading to the arrest of the suspect.

The suspect in his cautioned statement denied the allegations. However, a search conducted in his room revealed a Nokia 6080 phone, a digital camera, a laptop, pen-drives and other recording gadgets containing pornographic materials showing him stripped naked and children sucking his genitals.

Author : Della Russel Ocloo