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Two Fined For Peddling Porno Materials

Two newspaper vendors were yesterday fined ¢700,000 each by an Accra circuit court for possessing and selling pornographic materials.The convicts, Maxwell Danso and Abraham Sam, will serve 14 months each in prison if they default in the payment of the fines. Their arrest followed public outcry that the sale of pornographic materials was on the increase, corrupting people, especially the youth, to engage in immoral activities.They pleaded guilty with explanation to a count each of possessing and trading in pornographic materials and were convicted on their own pleas.Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mr George Abavelim told the court that police officers from the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, acting upon the public outcry, went to the Ridge taxi rank at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra on August 9, 2005, where Maxwell operated.He said when one of the officers approached Maxwell to buy some of the pornographic materials, she was taken to a hide out where two copies were sold to her for ¢120,000.ASP Abavelim said while sale was going on, other officers swooped in and arrested Maxwell.The prosecutor said a search in Maxwell’s room led to the retrieval of seven additional copies of similar materials.In his explanation, Maxwell said when the police officer approached him that she wanted some pornographic materials to buy, he told her that he did not deal in those materials.However, the woman persisted and even left her telephone number with him so that he could call her anytime he got some of the pornographic materials.According to Maxwell, it was after the woman had gone to him again to say that she worked in a hotel which needed them badly that he told her that he had some of the pornographic materials for his personal use and agreed to sell some to her.In the case of Abraham, the prosecutor said he was arrested when the police found that he had displayed the pornographic materials for sale near the Accra Polytechnic.ASP Abavelim said under the same modus operandi, a policewoman approached Abraham to buy one of the pornographic materials for ¢50,000.A search, he said, led to the retrieval of six additional copies of similar materials.The court ordered that the materials should be destroyed.In another development, an Accra circuit court yesterday remanded a 24-year-old porter, Andan Abubakari, for allegedly terminating the pregnancy of Fati Alhassan, her colleague.The victim, 20, who was five months pregnant is, on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.Andan’s plea was not taken and she will reappear on August 17, 2005 to answer abetment and abortion charges.The facts of the case are that a principal medical officer stationed at the Ussher Polyclinic called the police on August 1, 2005 and informed them that a young lady in his consulting room had taken some concoctions in an attempt to terminate a five-month-old pregnancy.When the police went to the clinic, they found Fatima groaning in pain and she was rushed to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.Andan was alleged to have given the drug to Fatima, who inserted it in her vagina. But she denied that and said she had only been sent to purchase the drug.

Story by Stephen Sah