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Defence lawyers in the trial of Queenie Akuffo, the lady accused of sexually assaulting a co-tenant with a vibrator at Ablekuma, a suburb of Accra, disbelieve that the victim was dazed when she took a drink from the accused person.
According to Andrew Kudjo Vortia, the 22-year-old Janet Amankwah (victim) was in his senses and appreciated the consequences of what happened.
The lawyer, who was cross-examining the victim in a court presided over by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, stated that she (Amankwah) could not say she was unconscious when she took the beer from the accused person because she (Amankwah) was breastfeeding her baby boy.
Mr Vortia further indicated that the day of the incident was the fourth time the victim was taking an alcoholic drink in the house of Queenie.
The lawyer also posited that Janet was at the birthday party of Queenie on December 25, 2015, an assertion the victim denied.
Janet Amankwah denied the position of the defence lawyers in the Accra Gender-Based Violence Circuit Court, insisting that she could not tell that she was conscious when she took the drink from the accused person.
She said that all she could remember was that she was feeding her baby but the child refused the breast milk.
Sitting continues on March 15, 2016.
Queenie, who reportedly filmed the act with her Infinix mobile phone, was standing trial for unnatural carnal knowledge.
She has denied the charge and is currently admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢40,000 with three sureties.
Queenie allegedly committed the act at about 6pm on January 25, this year at Ablekuma in Accra, where both of them reside.
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According to the prosecution, Queenie asked other witnesses around to leave and she locked her bedroom, but a 13-year-old witness went to peep through the window of the accused person and saw Queenie inserting the artificial male organ into the victim’s private part.
The victim’s brother, one Nana Sasu, reportedly saw the act and alerted her mother (the complainant).
They rushed to the aid of the victim and saw Janet lying naked in Queenie’s bedroom with vomit all over her.
The artificial organ was found on top of the accused person’s wardrobe while a video recording of the act was also found on Queenie’s Infinix@ mobile phone.
In her caution statement to the police Queenie admitted the offence.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
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