Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass, a senior medical doctor at Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Takoradi, appeared in court in handcuffs wearing a white T-shirt and a pair of khaki trousers.
Much of the proceedings were in camera, with prosecutors and the defence counsel unwilling to divulge what went on in the judge's chambers.
One of the investigators, however, told Kwame Boateng the case has been adjourned and the suspect remanded.
Family and close associates were in court to solidarise with Dr Ali-Gabass who has confessed to sodomising the 16-year-old SHS student.
According to Boateng, for the short moment that Ali-Gabass sat in open court, he bowed his head in grief and stared at his handcuffs.
The suspect being a Muslim, his family members were seen carrying and counting prayer beads (tasbih) in prayer for Ali-Gabass.
Ali-Gabass faces two counts of defilement and and having unnatural carnal knowledge.
He has already confessed to sodomising a 16-year-old boy in an interaction with Joy News investigator Manasseh Azure Awuni.
The victim, whose name has been withheld, suffered serious injuries in his anal region - injuries which took surgeries to heal.
While grieving over his anal injuries, he still has a bigger headache to contend with; he has been diagnosed with HIV but Ali-Gabass says he could not have been the one who infected him because he is HIV negative.
The pair met on facebook and established what was originally meant to be a mentor-mentee relationship but things turned on their head with the relationship becoming a sexual one.
The victim claims his mentor subjected him to five times of sexual encounters, three of which were in his car, but Ali-Gabass claims it happened only once and regrets his actions.
The suspect will return to court on November 7, for hearing, hopefully in open court.
The suspect was driven straight to police custody on remand.
Source: Joy Online
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