Ghana: Top US paedophile arrested

  1. Posted on Thursday 10 September 2009 - 09:03
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    The Ghana Police has nabbed an alleged US paedophile, Patrick Ken Larbah, 65, who video-taped about eight Ghanaian children forced them to perform sexual acts in his house in the Dangme East District. They said they believe the pictures are sold to operators of pornographic websites.
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    The retired teacher from Minnesota in the US is believed to be among the world top paedophiles. The Daily Guide newspaper said at the end of every video, he comments on the act of each child and explicitly mentions their names and locations.

    The report said the video recording of the sex acts lasted about three minutes each, with some of the victims looking exhausted. In the videos, the accused person's face never appeared as he held their heads and from time to time asked them to look straight into the camera, the newspaper added.

    In other videos, some of the victims were seen sitting in the background in a queue. The accused, according to the Tema Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), assistant superintendent of Police (ASP), Mrs. Rebecca Nyamah, has denied the charges leveled against him.

    However, the report which has raised eye brows among child rights organizations in Ghana, alleged that all the eight children pointed fingers at Larbah as the one who gave them toffees, food and also allowed them to watch movies in his house in exchange for several sexual acts.

    The accused was said to have relocated to his present location after fleeing Techiman in the Brong Ahafo region where he was living, upon realizing that elders of the community were beginning to suspect him of luring little girls into similar sex acts.

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