By Stephen Kwabena Effah
The Head Pastor of the Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, Nana Kwesi Yirenkyi, promised to give the mother of his 10-year old daughter a house to influence her to drop the case of his alleged defilement of the child, the Accra Circuit Court heard yesterday.Sergeant Eunice Afelipok Atinya, the police officer who started investigations into the case, told the court that when Yirenkyi was transferred from Akropong to Accra after his arrest, he pleaded with the victim’s mother at the Ministry’s Police Station to let go of the matter.
She said the mother of the victim, replied that she needed to discuss the matter with her relatives before she could decide on his offer.
Nana Yirenkyi, popularly referred to as ‘Jesus Onetouch’, was arrested for allegedly defiling his 10-year old daughter, with whom he lived, and is being tried on two counts of defilement and incest.
He has pleaded not guilty to both charges, and is currently on police remand, having been refused bail three time.
Giving her evidence as the sixth prosecution witness, Sgt. Atinya told the court that Yirenkyi also begged the Akropong Divisional Commander of Domestic Violence Support Unit not to let the case come out.
She said that while taking caution statement from Yirenkyi, he requested to see the commander and when he was allowed, Yirenkyi “lay flat on the floor begging the Commander”.
“He (Yirenkyi) said he loved the girl so much that he did not want the case to come out,” Sgt. Atinya told the court.
Witness told the court that as the Commander refused to drop the case, Yirenkyi decided to beg the victim’s mother to withdraw the case so that he would give her a house in exchange, adding that that he “begged from day one till he was handed over to the Ministry’s DOVVSU in Accra”
Although Sgt. Atinya had earlier told the court that the accused was arrested in Accra, she said under cross-examination that Yirenkyi was arrested the Akropong DOVVSU office when he honoured the police invitation, and was transferred to Accra DOVVSU after his was talen.
On his part, the gynaecologist who first examined the victim, Dr. Bedford Simon Sarfo of the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong, told the court that the victim was not a virgin, and that her hymen was torn.
However, he said, that her vulva was normal.
Dr Sarfo said he examined the girl on February 23, and issued a said the report on February 25, after the police medical form was given him.
Another prosecution witness, Corporal Ransford Odae Djaba, of the Ministry’s DOVVSU, told the court that the case was referred to him for further investigations on March 5, 2010 after it was transferred from Akropong.
He said he issued a medical form to the victim for another examination at the Police Hospital in Accra, adding that the girl stated that her father defiled her on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
According to him, a caution statement was then taken from the accused.
According to Cpl.Djaba, he went to Yirenkyi’s home on March 11, with the victim who led them to the accused’s bedroom and pointed to a spot on the floor where she said her father had been having sexual escapades with her.
According to Cpl.Djaba, he went to Yirenkyi’s home on March 11, with the victim who led them to the accused’s bedroom and pointed to a spot on the floor where she said her father had been having sexual escapades with her.
Cpt. Djaba said he interviewed all the occupants of the house.
Cpl.Djaba also told the court that Yirenkyi stated in his statement that the victim was defiled by his house-help, whose name he gave as Efo. Yirenkyi also claimed that Efo also defiled his step-daughter so he (Yirenkyi) even went to the SCC Police at Weija, to lodge a complaint but he was turned away.
However, Cpl. Djaba said his investigations revealed that the accused never went to the police station to make a complaint as claimed.
The case has been adjourned to April 26, for the prosecution to call its lost witness, a medical doctor.
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