Ghana: CEPS Officer Arrested For Sleeping With His Own Kids

A 42-year-old official of the Customs Exercise and
Preventive Service (CEPS), accused of raping, defiling and
sodomizing his four biological children, will be arraigned
before an Accra Circuit Court today.

Michael Kojo Acquah, an administrative officer at The
Revenue Collection Division, is alleged to have sexually
molested his kids whose ages are between ten months,
seven years, 11 and 20 years.

According to Chief Superintendent Paul Kontomah, the
Accra Regional Police Crime Officer, the incident was
reported last Tuesday.
He disclosed that one Titiana Kotlyarenko, Executive
Director of Enslavement Alliance West Africa, came to the
police station with one Emily Lawa, a Social Service
Department Officer of the Ghana Police Service, to report
that the accused, Acquah, had sodomized his seven-year-
old son and had also sodomized, defiled and raped three of
his daughters aged ten months, 11 years and 20 years
respectively.

Based on this information, Chief Superintendent Kontomah
claimed, the police apprehended Acquah at his matrimonial
home Saturday morning at Banana Inn near Mamprobi,
Accra.

He said forms were then issued to the victims for medical
examination at the Police Hospital.
According to Chief Superintendent Kontomah, the police had
since received the medical reports and would present them
before court as evidence.

Wife’s Confession
Meanwhile, the wife of the accused (name withheld),
according to information gathered, told the police that that
was the second time the husband, to whom she had been
married for 25 years, had sexually molested his biological
children. In 2010, Acquah was said to have raped his first
daughter (now 20 years of age) and the matter was reported
to the Ministries Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit
(DOVVSU) where he was allegedly remanded into prison
custody for three months.

On May 18, 2014, while she was asleep with the children,
the mother said, Acquah, who sleeps in a separate room,
entered their room and took their ten-month-old baby,
placed her at the edge of the bed and inserted his manhood
into her mouth.

The mother was reported to have said that
when she felt that her daughter was not lying by her side,
she immediately woke up only to find her daughter sucking
his father’s penis.
The following day, according to the wife, she reported the
matter to an NGO for help since the police refused to act on
the previous complaint lodged.

Children’s Confession
The seven-year-old son allegedly told the police that his
father had anal sex with him early last month while he was
asleep. The boy was reported to have added that he even
pulled a knife at the father the following day because he was
getting fed-up with his dad’s actions.

The two girls also
confirmed in their respective statements that their father had
sexually abused them.
Medical Reports
Reports issued from the Police Hospital indicated that there
had been penetration in their private parts of the girls.

The
reports revealed that all the girls had their hymens broken.
The boy, the medical report revealed, was also sodomized.