Yendi: Police arrests Man for defiling 14-year-old girl; allegedly infects her with HIV, Tuberculosis

A man believed to be in his 40s is being held by the police in Yendi after being accused of defiling a 14-year-old girl.

The man, who is reportedly working as a contractor on the Gushegu town roads, is alleged to have committed the act in January of this year.

In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, the victim’s father, Awuni Tia, claimed that the incident led to the girl contracting HIV and tuberculosis.

“After they bailed him out about six months now, no one cares and we realised that this boy is going to cheat us because when we went to Tamale again after going through the report, first was tuberculosis second was HIV. But they put her on drugs and the stomach was the most complicated thing and they could not identify the problem,” he stated.

The young girl was apparently warned not to tell anyone about the incident by the suspect, who also threatened to kill her if she did.

She so refrained from speaking about the upsetting event until her family became aware of her declining health condition.

“There was a day the girl was having a problem and we didn’t know what the problem was which was she was bleeding every day. So we got to find out that she is seriously sick so when we sent her to the hospital, they did a lot of tests and they could not find anything.”

“So we came home after a week and she got malaria again for two months. So from that we realised that she was defiled by a man called Alhassan Kambala. So when we approached him, he also accepted that it was a mistake. We reported to the police station and they arrested the boy and finally, they bailed him out,” Mr Tia indicated.