Father jailed for incest

July 18, 2009 (Page 34 - MIRROR)

A man who had sex with his 15-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Accra Circuit Court.
Joseph Pobee, a barber, pleaded guilty to one count of incest and told the court before his sentence that “anytime I see my daughter, she appears like her mother. I undressed her before I realised what I had done.”
The Presiding Judge, Mr C.A. Wilson, said the convict’s act was abominable.
According to Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr Lawrence Gael, the convict, who was no longer married to the victim’s mother, lived at Dome Pillar Two, a suburb of Accra with the victim and her step mother.
On June 16, 2009, a quarrel ensued between Pobee and his wife (the victim’s step mother) and in the process, his wife left the house, leaving the victim and her father alone.
Pobee invited his daughter to the living room and requested her to hug him which she did.
He later asked her to kiss him but she refused.
Pobee, however, pushed his daughter to the ground and forcibly had sex with her.
The unhappy victim reported her father’s conduct to her relatives at Alajo, a suburb of Accra, and they in turn reported the matter to the police.
The victim was issued a medical form to attend hospital for examinations.