Farmer jailed for having sexual intercourse with biological sister

A 34-year-old farmer, Daniel Dziwornu, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with his 21-year-old biological sister between the year 2020 and 2024.

Dziwornu pleaded guilty with the explanation that he had sexual intercourse with the victim due to the influence of alcohol, but the Court said his explanation could not exonerate him of the crime, and therefore entered a plea of guilty for the convict.

Chief Inspector Charles Aziati, Prosecuting told the Hohoe Circuit Court presided over by Mr Lambert Y. Keriba that the act of the convict was “barbaric, unacceptable and deviant” to ethics and culture.

He prayed the Court to give the convict severe punishment to deter others.

Chief Inspector Aziati, presenting the facts, said the victim was unemployed and living in the same town as the complainant, a social worker, while the convict was a farmer and a biological brother to the victim.

He said the mother of the convict and victim died when the victim was very young, so it was the convict who took care of her, and the two stayed together at where the convict resided.

Chief Inspector Aziati said that in the years 2020 to 2024, the convict started having sexual intercourse with the victim and in the process had terminated three pregnancies, adding that in March 2025, the victim left the convict’s place to her boyfriend’s place with her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

He said the convict traced the victim to her boyfriend’s house and forcibly took her daughter away.

Chief Inspector Aziati said the victim consented in the complainant being her neighbour, who led the victim to complain with the Police, leading to the arrest of the convict, who was in custody of the victim’s daughter enroute to Aao, on May 17, 2025, and subsequently handed over to the Hohoe Police.

He said during investigations, the convict admitted having had sexual intercourse with the victim.