From Kwame Asare Boadu, Kumasi
“YOU are the devil incarnate.” This was what circuit court judge Emmanuel Amo Yartey told a fetish priest just before pronouncing sentence on him for rape.
And, as if by design, the court gave him 20 years – the same as the age of the female teacher he raped.
Baah had managed to convince the teacher that some evil spirits were pursuing her and that she could never give birth until she went through some purification rites.
That paved the way for the fetish priest to eventually rape her, resulting in his incarceration.
Baah pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape but the prosecution managed to prove its case against him.
The facts of the case were that the victim lived with her sister at Moshie Zongo in Kumasi, while Baah lived at Ahwiaa, also in Kumasi.
About 11 a.m. on November 16, 2008, the victim visited a friend at Ahwiaa and was returning home when she saw five men, including Baah, sitting in an uncompleted building.
The prosecution said Baah called the victim and made her to believe that she could never give birth.
The fetish priest told her that some evil spirits were pursuing her and eventually convinced her to accompany him to his house to be exorcised of the spirit.
On reaching the house, Baah gave the victim some concoction to bath with, after which he showed her a room where she could dress.
No sooner had the complainant entered the room than the fetish priest followed up to forcibly abuse her sexually.
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