Man convicted for assaulting wife

Story: Albert K. Salia
Before proceeding to serve a five-year jail term, a 27-year-old convict yesterday turned to his wife and asked, “would you wait for me or marry another man?”
There was no answer for the man, Kwadwo Akyedee, who had been convicted for assaulting and causing harm to his two-year-old step-daughter.
Akyedee was said to have bitten the right cheek, left arm and the chest of his victim and used a cane to whip her leaving scars on her back.
The Public Relations Officer of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), Inspector Irene Oppong, told the Daily Graphic that the victim’s mother, Madam Dina Bamante, left the little girl in the custody of her husband while she went to the market.
On her return, Madam Bamante observed marks of human bite on the victim’s right cheek, left arm and the chest.
Inspector Oppong said when Madam Bamante questioned Akyedee, he denied knowledge but later admitted that he bite her to stop her from crying.
She said at another time, a concerned citizen living in the same area saw Akyedee lashing the the victim at the back.
She said when the concerned citizen, who was the complainant in the case, questioned Akyedee as to why he was beating the little girl so inhumanely, he said he gave a chamber pot to the victim to ease herself but she rather did it on the floor.
According to Inspector Oppong, the complainant rushed to the Nungua Police to report a case of assault and abuse of the little girl by Akyedee.
She said the victim was currently on admission at the Police Hospital.