A male student of the Adeiso Presbyterian Secondary School has been arrested for allegedly raping a female student.
Reports detailed that the alleged rape occurred during evening “prep” studies.
According to Rainbow Radio 87.5FM, Prince Collins Bening, the student have been identified as a Form 2 student and was busted following a complaint.
The information gathered detailed that the victim was standing when the suspect approached her and began touching her improperly, with the victim asking him to stop.
The suspect is said to have allegedly pushed her down and sexually assaulted her.
The victim, following the incident, reported the matter to school management, with the school subsequently filing a formal police report.
Later, a medical form was issued to the victim, and a follow-up examination at the hospital confirmed that sexual abuse occurred.
Reports suggest that the suspect’s parents reportedly visited the school in an attempt to appeal to the victim’s family to drop the case, but the victim’s family refused the plea, demanding justice through the legal system.
In related news, Dr Clement Apaak, the Deputy Minister for Education, has revealed that two students have been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a student of Osino Senior High School.
According to Dr Apaak, the arrests were part of a firm response by the Ministry of Education.
Speaking to JoyNews on Thursday, February 12, Dr Apaak stated, “I was the one directed by the minister to take it up, and through the Ghana Education Service I can inform the good people of Ghana that two culprits have since been arrested as being part of the perpetrators of the heinous act of rape and they are assisting the police in investigation”.
“The young lady herself is receiving counselling, and we are doing our best to ensure that she’s properly rehabilitated,” he noted.
He added, “Let me be clear, to both students and particularly to parents, students should be informed, and they should know that we will not tolerate any acts of lawlessness and misconduct”.
“Parents have a duty to ensure that their wards conduct themselves properly within the context of being in an academic environment. If they do not caution their wards and look the other way or they don’t pay attention to the conduct of their wards in school and the wards engage in acts of lawlessness or misconduct, they should expect the most severe sanctions to be meted out to them.”
“We need a disciplined society. We cannot build the Ghana we want, we cannot improve our conditions, we cannot think about a better future if our future leaders are allowed to become indisciplined citizens acting lawlessly and misconducting themselves. So it is for our collective good to ensure that our students at all levels are disciplined and they act within the context of lawfulness.”
Dr Apaak also spoke on the Kade Senior High School case saying, “In terms of the Kade case, that was a typical example of the current approach as far as the ministry and government are concerned in our aversion to acts of lawlessness and misconduct”.
“One popular incident was when a number of students, past and present from Kade Senior High School, assaulted one of their teachers because he prevented them from cheating during the last WASSCE examination,” Dr Apaak said.
“Although the teacher had made peace with the students through the intervention of their families, we still insisted that the law ought to take its course,” he explained.
“Subsequently, the students were arrested, and they were taken to court, and they were found guilty, but I hear that part of the sanction was for them to pay some fines.”
“Let me put on record that the Ministry of Education under the leadership of Haruna Iddrisu and the direction of His Excellency the President would no longer tolerate acts of lawlessness and misconduct,” he said.