A nine-year-old girl, Abena Talata, who resided at Bolano Cottage at Emaape, a village near Enchi in the Western Region, has died of complications after she was subjected to a marathon sex by a hefty farm labourer known only as Boateng. She died at the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani. According to Madam Yaa Rebecca Yebokowa, who adopted the girl barely a year ago, Boateng subjected the deceased to five rounds of rough sex and left her bleeding with severe wounds and swellings around her genitals, with her anus virtually torn to pieces. Abena, who was referred from the Goaso Government Hospital in the Asunafo North District to Sunyani on 27th November, finally gave up the ghost on 13th December last year. Rebecca Yebokowa noted that she adopted the girl after all her five children had died. She said Abena had been in good health until somewhere in November when she noticed that the girl's legs were wobbly. She disclosed that she started treating the girl with hot water and some drugs she bought from the drug store, adding that regardless of the treatment, Abena was not getting any better, compelling her to send the girl to her parents, Kwaku Darko and Mariama Kondoru, both peasant farmers and residents of Gambia No 1 in the Asutifi District. Auntie Rebecca related that the parents then took Abena to the Goaso Government Hospital where she was first admitted. According to the Head of Social Welfare Unit of the B/A Regional Hospital at Sunyani, Ms Olivia Avudzega, Rebecca Yebokowa had told her outfit that Abena was initially tight-lipped about who had had carnal knowledge of her when the hospital disclosed that she was raped. However upon further interrogations, she named Boateng as having had sex with her five times. Armed with this truth, Madam Rebecca, instead of reporting the incident to the Police, decided with some elders in the town to settle the issue at home. Ms. Avudzega noted that at the said meeting, it was resolved that the suspect, Boateng, worked to care for the poor girl, a decision which was accepted by all parties who did not even know the biological parents of the girl. The Social Welfare Unit Head, who spoke with grief, said Abena was brought to Sunyani in a bad state, recalling that the poor girl could neither sit nor stand on her feet because of pains and swellings all over her body. She told DAILY GUIDE that Abena never opened her swollen eyes; neither did she stop groaning till she finally gave up the ghost. Due to the pathetic nature of Abena's case, coupled with the financial status of her parents, her bill which amounted to GH¢189.90, had been waived by the hospital. On December 21, 2007, an autopsy was conducted on the body, which had since been released to the family for burial. She was the first of the three children of her parents. Meanwhile, the Tarkwa Police were reported to have arrested Boateng, 36, and would soon put him before court. The husband of Abena's adopted mother, who was said to have collapsed after learning of the incident, was also recuperating. Source: Daily Guide