The Ghana Police Service has announced the rescue of two teenagers who had gone missing since February 7, 2020.
A briefing on the rescue reveals that the victims had been lured away from Accra to Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central Region, where six men had taken turns to defile them.
After the sexual abuse, the perpetrators then abandoned the girls to their fate, constraining them to call home and ask to be sent money for transportation.
Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Afia Tenge, also explains that a brother to one of the victims had eventually spotted them at Mallam Junction, a suburb of Accra and queried them.
Four of the six men who had sex with the two girls below the legal sexual age of 16, have since been arrested and will be processed for court, while the Police is still on the hunt of the other two on the run.
“The brief facts are that a report was made to the Odorkor Police on the 8th of February by the parents of the two missing girls who left for school and never returned. While the Police was still investigating the whereabouts of these girls in earnest, it was established that on 7th February 2020, at about 6:50 am, both victims left their respective homes for school at Malam whilst school was in session, victims left school unceremoniously around 11 am to meet one Seth and Senior, now at large at McCarthy Hills.
“Both suspects had sexual intercourse with the victims and later left them to their fate.
“Later that day, a senior brother to one of the victims, spotted them in a desperate situation on his way back home at Malam Junction and questioned them as to why they were loitering about during school hours.”
ASP Afia Tenge advised parents to pay closer attention to their children, pointing out that if the sexual predators had had any other ulterior motives with for the girls in this country where ritual killings are rampant, they could have easily had their way with them.