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Prosecutors accuse Ghanaian woman of
sex assault |
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A 34-year-old
woman from Ghana, already accused of beating her
3-year-old daughter to death, now faces an additional
charge of sexual assault on a child by someone in a
position of trust. |
Arapahoe County prosecutors announced the charge, along
with two others – second-degree assault with a deadly
weapon and child abuse resulting in injury – during a
court hearing for Susie Ida Quartey this morning.
No additional details about the nature of the alleged
sex abuse were disclosed during the hearing.
Quartey was arrested Saturday after she called police to
her home at 11307 E. Utah Place to say that her young
daughter, Jolyn Torpoh, had stopped breathing. Quartey,
a health care worker, told police she had tried
unsuccessfully to resuscitate the girl.
When officers examined Jolyn’s body, they found what
appeared to be fresh injuries. Her mother says they were
caused when she fell in the backyard while being carried
on Quartey’s back in a sling that is customary to
Quartey’s homeland.
But an arrest affidavit said that police found a coat
hanger with blood or bodily fluids on it, along with a
broken towel bar inside the home.
Quartey’s lawyer has said she is innocent of any
wrongdoing.
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| Culled from
Rocky Mountain News |
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