CEPS OFFICIAL DEFILES THREE CHILDREN

A Custom Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) official, Michael Kojo Brenuo Acquah has been arrested for allegedly defiling his two biological daughters and a son aged 16, 7 and three respectively.

Acquah, 34, according to prosecutors had multiple sexual encounters with his children in their rooms until November, 2010 when the victims reported their ordeal to their mother.

Prosecutors said the last time the accused person had sexual intercourse his 16 year old daughter was November 11, 2010 adding that it was the abuse of his three-year-old son who later reported to his mother that led to the arrest of Acquah after she (Acquah’s wife) had confronted the accused person.

The facts of the case which was presented by the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mrs. Georgina Acquah said, the victims and accused person lived at Banana Inn, a suburb of Accra, adding that some few months ago the three-year-old boy complained that his father had been constantly massaging his buttocks, resulting in pain.

According to the ASP, the accused person got offended and resorted to insults when his wife confronted him over the incident. 


In ensuing confrontation, the 16-year-old girl was said to have told her mother that Acquah had had sexual intercourse with her on several occasions and threatened to send her to the village to live with her grandmother if she dared tell her mother about her ordeal.

The seven-year-old girl, according to Mrs. Acquah also told her mother that the accused person had defiled her which made the mother of the victims report to the police where medical forms were issued to the victims to attend hospital for examination.

Acquah was later arrested after the medical reports had revealed that his daughters had been defiled.