Exploration of factors influencing court outcomes in cases involving minors as victims in Ghana.

Background: The factors that influence positive court outcomes for cases of child sexual abuse (CSA) have been studied in other contexts but very few such studies exist for Sub-Saharan countries. Knowledge of how such cases fare in these court systems is, however, important for a global assessment of such outcomes.

Objective: The study explored the predictive effect of the victim, complainant; offender and offence characteristics, and length of the trial on case disposition and dropout.