A circuit court in Cape Coast, on Friday sentenced a 40-year-old farmer, Kobina Ebo from Ajumako-Assasan, to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old girl. Ebo, who broke into tears after the sentence had been pronounced, pleaded guilty to the offence. Prosecution told the court that on September 11, this year, at about 0800 hours, the victim's mother sent her to give food to her grandmother at another house. On her way back, the girl met Ebo who asked her to buy him food from a night market, but when she returned, he lured her into his room and forcibly had sex with her. The court heard that Ebo promised the victim GH¢10.00 and threatened to kill her if she disclosed it to anyone but she informed her mother when he went home. A medical report from the hospital indicated that she had been defiled. Source: GNA