Ashanti police prosecute more criminal domestic violence cases

The Ashanti Regional Police Command is prosecuting many more cases of criminal domestic violence at the law courts ranging from defilement, rape, assault, indecent assault to theft of children.

As at the end of last year, 130 domestic violence cases were pending at the various courts of law from which 49 had been successfully prosecuted, convicted and given sentences. 

Speaking to Radio Ghana in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional DOVVSU Coordinator, DSP Benjamin Dokrugu noted that the sentencing of the offenders include imprisonment, bonding for specific period of years and fines while about nine of the accused were discharged by the Courts for the lack of evidence against them.

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