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The Accra Gender-based Violence Circuit Court yesterday ordered the police to immediately send the Founder and General Overseer of the Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, Prophet Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, to hospital for medical treatment.The order followed a complaint to the court by the man of God, who is facing charges of incest and defilement, that the police had refused to send him to the hospital for a follow-up after an earlier visit.
However, the prosecution challenged the accused that he had rather resisted attempts to send him to the hospital claiming that he was okay. The judge, Mrs Georgina Mensa-Datsa, urged family members to also ensure that the accused was taken to hospital for his condition to be looked at.The accused was to open his defence in the matter after the court dismissed a submission of no case and an application for stay of proceedings pending the outcome of an appeal filed by the accused.
Consequently, the court adjourned the matter to July 27, 2010 to await the High court’s decision on the hospital.Prophet Yirenkyi, also known as Jesus Onetouch, has been accused of having sexual intercourse with his biological daughter but he has pleaded not guilty to the charges.When the matter was called Wednesday, the prosecution informed the court that the appeal filed by the accused had been adjourned to July 26, 2010. The judge then asked the accused what transpired at the High court to which he responded that he was not in court because he had been sick.According to the court, for the past two months, the matter had been going back and forth and when the accused was asked whether his counsel had briefed him about what happened at the High Court, he let out his complaint.“I was taken to hospital and asked to come again, but I have not been taken back,” the accused said.But a police prosecutor swiftly rebutted that and explained that it was rather the accused person who had refused to be taken to the hospital.The court said that until the High Court ruled on the appeal there was nothing it could do and, therefore, it was incumbent that the accused person was taken to hospital.A 10-year-old daughter of the accused is alleged to have confessed that the accused person, after bouts of sexual intercourse with her, wiped off the sperms from his sexual organ and the fluids from her private parts with a white handkerchief.According to the persecution, the victim, who was born out of wedlock, lived with her mother at Dawu in Akuapem until 2005 when she relocated to Accra to live with her father at McCarthy Hill to attend school. It said in the latter part of 2007, the accused person began having sex with the victim before he organized church service each time.In November, 2009 the accused person gave the victim’s mother, who happened to be the complainant in the case, an opportunity to hold discussions with the victim about a bad behavior she was exhibiting. During the interaction with her mother, the victim revealed her ordeal to her, which resulted in the woman lodging a complaint with the police.
Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana
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