A 42-year-old carpenter Kwaku Mawuli who had been charged with defilement, shocked an Accra circuit court where he was standing trial when in his defence, he insisted that he was compelled by the nine year old victim to have sex with her. “My Lord, though I did not want to do it, she insisted we should do it because she was in the mood for sex. She even told me she was not a virgin and that she has been having sex very often with other men in the area. It was based upon her insistence that we did it”. Unfortunately for Mawuli, his eloquent defence and justification for his action failed to convince the court which subsequently slapped him with a ten year jail term in hard labour. Even whilst he was being whisked away to the Nsawam prison to begin his jail term, the convict in uncontrollable tears could still be heard justifying his action and insisting that the victim should rather be blamed and not him. The case of the prosecution was that the convict lived in the same vicinity with the victim and her mother. Sometime in February this year, Mawuli reportedly lured the girl into a wooden kiosk where he resided and forcibly had sex with her. After the act, he told the girl to keep the affair a secret and that he would reward her with some money. A day after the incident, the victim’s mother spotted some changes in her so she confronted her during which she revealed that Mawuli had sexually abused her. Based on this revelation, a report was made to the police leading to his arrest. Medical examinations on the victim confirmed that she had indeed been defiled. Source: P&P/Ghana