A 40-year-old man,Emmanuel Kwesi Yevu, who had sexual intercourse with his 13-year-old daughter, claiming he had woken up from a dream in which he had sex with his late wife, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Accra Circuit Court.
He pleaded guilty to the offence of incest.
In another case of incest, the court remanded 40-year-old Kwesi Mortsi, for having an affair with his 18-year-old daughter for 18 months and aborting her pregnancy for her on three occasions.
Mortsi, however, pleaded not guilty to one count of incest and was remanded to reappear on Februrary 7, 2012.
In the first case, Yevu had told the court that on a particular occasion, he had taken alcohol, slept and dreamt of having sex with his late wife.
When he woke up, he found out that his daughter had placed one of her legs on him and so, unable to control himself, he had sex with her.
Yevu also claimed a spirit entered him and lured him to have sex with his daughter on two occasions gave her medicines to swallow and another to insert in her vagina when she complained to him that she had not menstruated for three months.
There was profuse laughter when Yevu’s brother got up and informed the court that Yevu was oblivious of his offence because he had been charmed spiritually.
He looked directly at the trial judge, Mrs Georgina Mensah-Dastsa, and said “please have mercy on my brother. This one, ibi juju oooh.”
The judge replied “On a lighter note, I have powers but not juju powers. So take your juju story to a juju court.”
Yevu, who appeared not to be in a position to speak found his voice all of a sudden after his brother had humoured the court and stated in Ewe that evil spirits drove him to sleep with his daughter.
He said the spirits entered him thereby making him have frequent dreams of having sexual intercourse with his late wife.
On a particular occasion, he claimed he took in alcohol, slept, dreamt of having sex with his late wife and upon waking up, he found his daughter had laid one of her legs on him.
The facts of the case as presented by Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mrs Sarah Acquah said the complainant was the victim’s uncle.
She said the victim had been living with the convict at Omanjor in Accra since the death of victim’s mother.
The prosecution said during October 2011, the victim was sleeping when Yevu forced her and had sex with her on two occasions. After the acts, the victim informed her father that she had not menstruated for the past three months.
Yevu, suspecting the victim was pregnant, gave the victim medicine to swallow and insert some of the medicine into her vagina.
Soon after inserting the medicine, the victim began to complain of abdominal pains and she was rushed to the hospital and a report was made to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) at Odorkor Police station.
The victim was issued with a medical form while her father was arrested by the Police and during interrogation, Yevu admitted the offence.
Mortsi, on the other hand lived at Dansoman in Accra with his daughter, a school drop out and was for the past one and half years subjecting her to sexual abuse.
On January 16, 2012, Mortsi attempted to have sexual intercourse with his daughter but she refused to heed to his moves.
The next day while preparing to leave for work, Mortsi made sexual moves again but the victim refused thereby infuriating Mortsi who seized her bag in the process.
Mortsi’s action infuriated the victim who reported her sexual ordeal to the police.
Mortsi was picked up for questioning and later charged after police had completed investigations into the matter.
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