Two Electricians and Two Apprentices have been sentenced to twenty years in prison for raping one Benewaa Abigail. The four; Karim Seidu (Master Electrician), Philip Bobabgo (Junior Electrician), Anson Boakye (Apprentice) and Yayah Sasu (Apprentice), were given their twenty-year sentence independently after all four confirmed to touching and raping Benewaa Abigail.
In handing the sentence, the presiding Judge of the Dunkwa-On-Offin Circuit Court, Judge Mac-Karima Jibrebo stated that, the court needed to punish the offenders severely, but looking at how they had conducted themselves, confessed to the crime and shown remorse, they needed sympathy.
This court will take account of the remorse you have shown and the vivid account you have given without wasting the courts time. For this, you are hereby sentenced to twenty years in jail for raping and abandoning Benewaa Abigail, the judge said before closing the case.
The four, Master Karim Seidu and his employees will be taken to the Kumasi Central prisons on Wednesday 22 December to begin their sentence.
Case Briefings
Master Karim Seidu, the Senior electrician and owner of Karim Electricals, was home on 4 March 2021 when he received a call from a client. Karim on his way to the client’s house on 4 March, passed by his shop to pick some tools for the job when he caught his junior electrician Philip Bobabgo and his two apprentices; Anson Boakye and Yayah Sasu, about to rape Benewaa Abigail.
Karim intervened on Benewaa and reprimanded his employees for attempting to rape the 26-year-old pure water seller. Karim after subjecting his workers to insults, went inside to the shop and instead of setting Benewaa free, raped her for not accepting his proposal.
Karim had on 7 December 2020, proposed to Benewaa Abigail but Benewaa rejected Karim on the purpose that, she was too young for relationships. Karim used the rejection and instead of setting the woman free, rape her in the shop where his workers had tied her to a pillar.
Karim after satisfying himself with Benewaa, told his workers they can set her free or enjoy her also. The three employees of Karim; Philip, Sasu and Anson raped Benewaa in addition to what Karim had done before throwing her in a gutter.
Benewaa was found unconscious in a gutter near the Dunkwa-On-Offin market on 5 March 2021. She was taken to the Dunkwa-On-Offin Government Hospital where doctors worked on her day and night to save her.
Karim and his employees were arrested on 12 March 2021 after Benewaa had narrated her ordeals to the police. The case which have been going on for nine months, came to an end this morning when the President Judge, Mac-Karima Jibrebo sentenced the four to twenty years in prison.
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