Jesus Onetouch's wife defends husband

Thursday, November 25, 2010 (Page 3 Lead)

THE wife of Prophet Kwasi Yirenkyi, alias Jesus Onetouch, yesterday testified in the case in which her husband is standing trial for allegedly defiling his daughter and stated that the allegations levelled against her husband were false.
Akosua Agyeiwaa corroborated her husband’s earlier evidence that it was rather a security man in their house who defiled the victim.
According to her, she and others accompanied the accused person to report the alleged defilement of the victim by the watchman, known as Efo Emma, to the police in August, 2009.
Prophet Onetouch has pleaded not guilty to one count of defilement and has been denied bail by the circuit court, presided over by Mrs Georgina Mensah-Datsa.
The witness, who was led in evidence by one of the defence lawyers, Mr Paul Ofori, said she was also present when the victim’s mother said her daughter had informed her that Efo Emma had defiled her.
In answer to allegations that her husband had sex with the victim on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, the witness stated that those claims were false because her husband’s itinerary was such that there was no way such a thing could have happened.
According to her, the victim had once confessed to her that she, her mother and her grandmother were witches who had once attempted to spiritually attack her (witness) but they could not because they had been met by a strong light.
Agyeiwaa said the police, the victim and her mother visited their home and entered the bedroom after her husband had been arrested for defiling the victim.
She said the accused person protested the complainant’s decision to withdraw the victim from school to attend to chores in the village but the complainant did not budge and succeeded in taking the victim to the village in July 2009.
She gave the itinerary of the family and stated that there had been no point in time when the victim and the accused person had been left alone.
Agyeiwaa also denied concocting stories to save her husband from imprisonment, adding that she was a mother and would not defend anything evil.
Answering questions under cross-examination from a Chief State Attorney, Ms Helen Kwawukume, the witness told the court that her daughter had once informed her that Efo Emma had touched her buttocks.
She denied suggestions from the prosecution that she had made up the story to divert attention from her husband, adding that the victim confessed to being a witch and that it was not a move on her part to vilify the victim.
Witness also denied a suggestion from the prosecution that the victim was not her favourite.
A nephew of the accused person’s, Kwame Asare, said he had once seen Efo Emma and the victim in a compromising position and further stated that he later reported the incident to the accused person.
He said the children in the accused person’s household did not have access to the accused person’s bedroom, adding that there had been no point in time when the accused person had assaulted someone in the household.
During cross-examination, the witness denied a suggestion from the prosecution that he had been summoned by the accused person to tell lies to the court.
Hearing continues on December 8, 2010.