Court remands teacher for child trafficking

Ashaiman, April 29, GNA - Georgette Amissah, alias Esi Kakraba, a teacher at St. Augustine's College in Cape Coast, was on Thursday remanded in Police custody by the Ashaiman Circuit Court for trafficking her nephew to La Cote d' Ivoire.

She pleaded not guilty and would reappear on May 5.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Christine Yevunoo, Ashaiman Divisional Co-ordinator of Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, made this known to the Ghana News Agency.

ASP Yevunoo said on March 6, the accused person came for the victim from her mother at Ashaiman under the pretext of sending her to school in Cape Coast.

She said after a week, the victim's mother, Mrs Priscilla Ayagiba called to find out how her 10-year old daughter was faring.

To her surprise the accused person told her that her daughter had been sent to a relative in La Cote d'ivoire to attend school.

She said the victim's mother demanded for a telephone number to contact her daughter but efforts to get her on it failed.

ASP Yevunoo said on April 4, the victim's mother received a call from one Nana Bentum, Chief of the Fante Community in Abidjan that her daughter was found by a Good Samaritan on the street of Abidjan.

The victim, who gave her mother's number to the Fante Chief, told him that she was sent to a woman as a domestic help, but the woman was maltreating and beating her with electric wire.

ASP Yevunoo said the Ghanaian Embassy in Abidjan gave Nana Bentum a letter to handover the victim to the Ashaiman DOVVSU who managed to send her to her mother.

She said on April 24, the accused person was invited by the police and was arrested.

ASP Yevunoo said she admitted the offence in her caution statement.

GNA