All 13 male students of the University of Ghana who were accused of inserting their fingers into the private part of an alleged female thief have been discharged.
The students who were charged on three counts of conspiracy to commit crime, assault and causing unlawful harm were discharged on Tuesday by an Accra Circuit court.
Lawyer for the 13, Rockson Dafiamekpor told Accra based Joy Fm that the discharge of his clients was in order because although they were charged with conspiracy to commit crime “no specific crime was specified.”
“We are saying since March last year when this matter broke, we are in July 2012, this is about 15 or 16 months and prosecution has failed to initiate any proceedings in this matter, its always been adjournment one after the other.
“The complainant has since the turn of this year never been to court so we clearly made our argument to the court that in a situation like this the court has the power to discharge us for want of prosecution” which has been granted.
The alleged female thief by name Amina Haruna was physically harassed by some male students of the Mensah Sarbah Hall annex B after they arrested her around 3:00am for allegedly stealing a laptop and other gadgets belonging to a female student of the mixed hall.
Instead of handing her over to the University police, the students many of whom were males stripped her naked and physically abused her and recorded the act.
In the ‘nasty video’ which was obtained by Citifmonline.com, Amina could be seen weeping severely as she pleaded with the students to forgive her. But the men without mercy tore her into pieces to expose her naked body.
They opened her legs wide and some of the guys could be seen inserting their fingers into her private part.
The students, after molesting the victim, handed her over to the police.
Citifmonline
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