Dr. Ali Gabass, the medical practitioner who sodomized a 16-year-old boy has been slapped with a 25-year jail term by an Accra circuit court.
According to a report on Graphic Online, Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass - a Sekondi-based medical practitioner who was charged for sodomising a 16-year-old senior high school student, has been found guilty, charged of defilement and subsequently jailed for 25-years by an Accra Circuit Court in Ghana on Monday.
The senior medical doctor at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital in Sekondi, was charged with 2-counts of having unnatural carnal knowledge of the victim and defilement. He however denied the charges and in all, 5 witnesses, including the victim and Mr Manasseh Azure, a journalist who first broke the story that led to the arrest, and the victim’s father, testified.
Other witnesses are the police investigator, Sergeant Osei Asiedu, and Dr Nii Aryee, a surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, who diagnosed the victim with fistula and anal rectal abscess after a surgical operation as the young victim, whose health condition is deteriorating, has been diagnosed as being HIV positive.
The lead counsel during the trial, Mr John Benson, submitted a medical report from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to prove that his client was not HIV positive.
Before pronouncing sentence, the court asked counsel for Ali-Gabass, whether there was any plea for mitigation, counsel said he was a family man with two kids, a wife and was also a medical doctor.
The counsel pleaded with the court to take into consideration the UN Charter that protects the rights of Lesbians and Gay Bi-sexual Transgender (LGBT) people as well as the recent ruling of the US Supreme Court, that paved the way for the recognition of gay marriages in all states in the United States.
The trial judge Rita Agyemang Budu in her ruling on Monday pronounced him guilty on defilement. He was, however, acquitted and discharged of the second count of having unnatural carnal knowledge of the victim.