Assaulted boy dismissed from school
The 15-year-old junior secondary school pupil who was allegedly assaulted by the father of his 13 year-old female classmate because he had allegedly befriended his daughter, has been dismissed from his school.
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Attached to the dismissal letter was a cumulative record of the boy that put his age at 18, which officials of the Lower Manya Krobo Education Directorate doubted because the figures had been tampered with.
A letter signed by the Headmistress of Starward School at Odumase-Krobo, Miss Regina Addy, dated October 30, 2013 and handed over to the father of the boy, stated among others that “all the pieces of advice given to your son to rather concentrate on his books have proved futile because he continues to date the girl.
“Unfortunately, your son was seen on October 19 after classes with his daughter, so he was so much provoked that he reported the matter to the police and consequently your son was detained at the Akuse Police Station.
“The incident was reported in the daily newspapers and in fact, your son’s behaviour is a calculated attempt to tarnish the image of this great school and as such the school has no other alternative than to dismiss him from the school,” the letter stated.
Headmistress flares up
When the Daily Graphic followed up with the father of the boy to plead for the boy’s re-admission, since his dismissal had come at a time of the registration of third year JSS pupils for the BECE, the headmistress did not take it kindly.
When asked to make available the original document of the boy’s admission to find out his actual age, Miss Addy flared up and drove the Daily Graphic newsman away, shouting “you can go and publish anything you want.”
Doubtful age
At the Lower Manya Education Directorate, both the Director, Madam Irene Ayernor, and the Private School Co-ordinator of the directorate, Mr Evans Ablo, agreed that the age of the boy on the cumulative record had been tampered with.
Madam Ayernor, therefore, ordered the school to furnish her outfit with the photocopy of the admission record.
She also told the father of the boy to officially notify her of his son’s dismissal after which she would prevail on the school to re-admit him.
It would be recalled that on October 19, this year, an Accra-based businessman, Anthony Asare, who suspected that the boy was befriending his daughter, severely assaulted him when he saw the daughter in the company of the boy.
Asare was then said to have called his policeman friend, one Corporal Christian Anyan of the Nuaso Police Station, who handcuffed the boy, paraded him through some of the streets of Odumase Krobo before detaining him at the Akuse Police Station for two days.
The boy was released on the orders of the Deputy Eastern Regional Police Commander, ACP James Abass Abaa, immediately he got wind of it.
Asare was later apprehended and charged with assault and arraigned before a magistrate’s court at Somanya. He has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢2,500 with one surety.
He is to reappear on November 15, 2013.
The boy, who sustained injuries as a result of the attack by Asare is also expected to be dealt with in the chamber of the same court on the same day because he is a juvenile.
A version of this article appears in print on November 8, 2013, on page 23 of the Daily Graphic with the headline: Assaulted boy dismissed from school.