The Dormaa Circuit Court has sentenced Kwaku Boadi, a 26-year-old to a 12- year jail term for impregnating his step-daughter. The court presided by Mr. Alexander Osei Tutu convicted him on his own plea despite the explanation that he committed the offence under the influence of alcohol. Chief Inspector Alexander A. Duodu prosecuting, told the court that Boadi lived with his wife and that the 15-year-old step-daughter paid them a visit to spend part of her holidays with them. He said in August 2010 Boadi's wife fell sick and he took advantage of her inability to move and raped her daughter. The prosecutor said on January 04 the victim's mother detected that her daughter was pregnant and when asked she mentioned Boadi as being responsible. Chief Inspector Duodu said the victim further informed her mother that her step-father threatened to deal with her drastically if she disclosed the ordeal to anyone. The same court slapped a three-year jail term on Yaw Sekyere, a labourer at Aboabo No. 1, for stealing fowls from a poultry farm. Prosecuting, Inspector B.B. Lartey told the court that two workers of the poultry farm ambushed and caught Sekyere red-handed at about 21:20 hours on January 10 this year. Inspector Lartey told the court the farmer detected on January 07 that thieves had broken into his hen coop and made away with some birds. He said the farmer detailed two of his staff to ambush and arrest any intruders. Prosecution said on January 10 the staffs spotted Sekyere emerge from behind the coop but they decided to relax and watch what he had come to do. Sekyere tip-toed to the coop, punched a deep hole into the mesh surrounding the structure and began to pick the fowls. He said the staffs confronted and arrested him and he readily admitted the offence when the police interrogated him. The court also imposed a fine of GH¢ 360 on Nicholas Arthur, a farmer at Aboabo Number 2 near Dormaa-Ahenkro for possessing 150 pieces of chainsaw lumber. Arthur was convicted upon his own plea. Inspector Charles Agovi told the court that members of the Dormaa Municipal Forest Task Force on their usual patrol to check illegal felling and transportation of lumber in the area bumped into a KIA truck with registration number BA 636 V loaded with 150 pieces of wood suspected to have been illegally acquired. He said further police enquiries showed that Arthur who claimed ownership of the lumber did not have any valid documents covering them. Inspector Agovi said the police therefore ordered the truck to be driven to the Dormaa Municipal Chief Executive's residence where the lumber was off-loaded and Arthur was later charged with the offence. Meanwhile the court has directed that the impounded lumber should be sold by the Municipal Assembly and the proceeds used for development projects. Source: GNA