Photos: Dr. Ali-Gabass smiles to Prison to serve 25 years

Dr Ali-Gabass waving to family and supporters after the verdict

An Accra circuit court has sentenced a senior medical officer of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Takoradi, Dr. Sulley Ali-Gabass, to 25 years imprisonment.

Dr. Sulley Ali-Gabass was arrested in October 2014 following an investigation by Joy FM’s Manasseh Azure Awuni, which revealed he allegedly had sexual intercourse with a sixteen year old senior high school boy. The boy said he was fifteen years they first had sex.

The boy alleged that apart from the first sexual intercourse, he was forced in the other four encounters. Dr. Sulley Ali-Gabass was arrested and charged with defilement.

When Manasseh Azure Awuni confronted Dr. Ali-Gabass after gathering substantial evidence that he had a relationship with the boy, he confessed having sex with the boy.

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“You know, with this sexual thing, you know, for some of us we are trying our best. You know, it’s like being born with it. That urge is there,” he said.

“It was in my car he actually … I was going to Accra. He says the … he will meet me. In fact, I was so this thing because he said he was doing science so, in fact, it was through this that I … this guy was so sexually this thing,” he explained after admitting that he met the boy on Facebook.

He went on: “I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. I won’t lie to you, in fact, it was a mistake. You see, this guy, I don’t know. It’s like … it’s not carnal knowledge per say but the fact that this guy a minor, a friend of yours and then you know this thing.”

Today, an Accra Circuit Court presided over by, Mrs Rita Agyeman-Budu, found Dr. Ali-Gabass guilty of defiling a child less than 16 years and sentenced him to 25 years imprisonment.

Dr. Gabass is married with two children. Joy News’ Kwakye Afreh Nuamah reports that his wife burst into uncontrollable tears when judgment was delivered.

Dr Ali-Gabass was, however, smiling and looked cheerful as police officers escorted him out of the court premises to begin his sentence.

Meanwhile, his lawyers say they will appeal the ruling.

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“We are considering appeal….we are going to ask for the record of proceedings and go to a higher court which will have to look at the evidence all over again and see whether he merits 25 years”, the lawyer Phixon Owool told Joy News’ Kwakye Afreh Nuamah.

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