I find it difficult to understand the actions of certain successful men in life. What at all is happening to the world we live in today?
From the story below, it is evident that Mr Safo (a Ghanaian Principal) is doing great in UK with a school and 4 care homes to his name, yet he decided to disgrace himself, country and all of us in this way.
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A Ghanaian college principal, who repeatedly raped one of his African students while threatening her with deportation if she resisted, has today been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
James Safo, 62, ‘controlled, degraded and systematically sexually abused the victim’, Croydon Crown Court was told.
Judge Simon Pratt said the attacks constituted a grave ‘abuse of power’ and was ‘one of the most serious cases of rape I have ever dealt with’.
The court heard that Safo, a trained nurse, left his 30-year-old victim haunted ‘day and night’ by her ordeal.
Safo was the principal and owner of The Secretary College, Croydon, and also owned four care homes. His victim was studying for an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification: a British qualification in a technical or practical subject which shows that a person has a range of skills useful for work) at the college which offers courses in healthcare.
She was also employed at one of Safo’s care homes and lived as a tenant in one of his houses.
Judge Simon Pratt told Safo, a first-time offender: ‘Your course of conduct lasted 18 months or so and involved you abusing your position as college principal and employer to force her to have private meetings so your sexual attacks could happen.
‘You threatened to make life difficult for her with the Home Office by reporting she was in breach of her visa and liable to deportation from this country.’
Safo was convicted after a six-week trial on four counts of rape, one attempted rape and one sexual assault between June, 2007 and December, 2008.
He was acquitted of sex attacks on two other employees and students and a similar complaint was dismissed in 2001.
The victim told police: ‘Images of what this man has done to me haunt me day and night.’
She was pregnant during one of the rapes and later suffered a miscarriage.
Miss Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, said as the victim’s landlord he effectively controlled her life and was guilty of ‘intimidation and coercion’.
Judge Pratt told Safo: ‘There cannot be a more serious abuse of power, it is a serious aggravating factor. The rapes and attempted rape were violent.
‘She described one rape as brutal and whether that rape caused her miscarriage is hard to say, but she will live the rest of her life believing it did.
‘She will have to carry the burden of what you did to her for many years to come. This is one of the most serious cases of rape I have ever dealt with.
‘It involved a betrayal of trust by an employee and college principal and a campaign of blackmail to keep her under control with threats you could have her deported.
‘The offences rely in your desire for power over others as well as sexual gratification,’ added Judge Pratt.
Credit: Daily Mail/UK
this is too bad! The reputation he has taken years to build, he has allowed lust to destroy it. it’s not easy but one has to learn to control his or her sexual desires, the weapon that has brought great men down in a twinkle of an eye.
what an ugly man inward & outward
@NYCwhy do u call him wit names?
what a disgrace !
@27 calibre,
I agree Calibre. He’s a disgrace to society and my beloving country Ghana as whole.
@Weapon-X, i AGREE WITH YOU GUYS AND I KNOW THESE STUPID NIGERIANS WILL POST THIS ON THEIR SITE AND INSULT Ghanains for nothing.
@maame, maame i am aware but the nigerians do worser things than this ,if they insult us i will not hesitate to reply so dont worry about it ..i lov ghana
what if this dude was close to the girl and because she was about to be deported she use some old fashion game by blaming him for something which it might not even be true cause these things don’t really happing among Gh people here in Uk and don’t think he would be sp stupid to throw his future and everything what he work hard for away by the way i haven’t seen or heard anything about this story on bbc or sky or any newspaper so how did you guys come up with this story
@Miyagi,
Check Dailymail website, it must be there ! Sup with you man?
@Author: Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri,cheers chris i have seen it i have seen the school he is been working compare to your story above at first i was thinking he was working for some uni or something but after seeing the picture of the school he was working i will say DUDE IS GUILTY
@Author: Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri, hey chris,i learnt Mrs.jackie Agyemang Appiah celebrated her birthdae last sunday wit UNDERPRIVILE @ Korle -bu.Could u bring us dat wonderful news for her FANS to kno hw lovely Mrs.jackie Agyemang appiah is?is on ghanaweb.
@osei,
Ameyaw sent it through so it is posted, How are you anyway?
@Miyagi, comments like yours are one of the reasons many women do not report rape incidents. If you have not heard or read it, does not mean it never happened. Dumb things are usually done by people who think they are “smart”.
@NYC,your really funny you know read above your own reply before commenting okay
dis is just not nice…why old man why???waaa look at ur hair cut n miserable face??15 years is even small..u shd b sentence to life imprisonment with tortured n hard labor..disgrace to the ghanaian society worldwide..Shaaaaame
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you need to die there ,RUBBISH.JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE AN HAIR.
this is sad. i mean, how could he? i bet he thought he could get away with it. Nyame na atua wo ka. i pray for God’s guidance for the victim. i hope as each day passes, she will be able to forget about that act.
sad but true – I suffered the same but this time with a Pastor that I worked for for years before I was deliverered. If you need another real life story, it is mine! Needless to say, the sentence of this gentleman was lenient!
Really this ugly ass old man should have spend the rest of his days behind bars, the things some people will do to their fellow human beings is unfathomable.
What a face??What was he thinking.
Prison would be good for him, on day one …hair cut. Instant improvement !