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The Sex Was Rough, says Rape Victim - 8/6/2009 -

The Victim
From Morgan Owusu, Kumasi

THE 19-year-old seamstress apprentice who was allegedly raped in the full glare of horrified onlookers at Asafo, a Kumasi suburb, on the dawn of Wednesday July 29, 2009, yesterday gave a tearful narration of her ordeal to a packed Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court.

As she spoke, Eric Adjei Bawuah, the 28-year-old gym instructor also broke down and wept bitterly, with his wife looking on and the audience moaning.
The accused person was making his second appearance in court after he was remanded by the same court on Monday August 3, 2009.

Justice Frimpong, the presiding judge, for the second time remanded the former Mr. Ghana contestant into prison custody to reappear at the same court today.

Led by Chief State Attorney, Mr. Williams Pobee, the victim told the court that she was at the Asafo Neoplan Station that dawn to board a bus to Accra after visiting her sister in Kumasi when the accused grabbed her hand and demanded that she followed him.

She said she refused because she did not know the accused but he told her he was a ‘killer’ and threatened to deal ruthlessly with her if she dared refuse to heed his orders.

The accused, she said, held her hand tightly and bundled her into a taxi and ordered the driver to drive, dropping her at a nearby washing bay after which he sent her to an open space drinking spot.
According to the victim, though she was screaming aloud, people around at the time could not muster courage to come to her aid.

She said at the drinking spot, Bawuah ordered her to undress but she refused. This infuriated the accused who tore her clothes into pieces, thereby stripping her naked.

The victim told the packed court that the accused, after stripping her, stated that had it not been for the love of God, he would have stabbed her to death for being stubborn.

She said after stripping her naked, the accused, who was still holding her hand tightly, undressed himself, pulled a condom from his pocket and used his other hand to put on the condom.

Afterwards, he pulled one of the chairs at the spot and sat on it, ordering her to sit on his erected penis.

She said she again refused to comply; but the accused inserted his hand into her vagina and forcibly dragged her to sit on his erected penis, after which he took her through a devastating bout of sex.

The victim said all this while, she was screaming aloud for help, but the onlookers who gathered at the place could not come forward to rescue her because of the stern warning the accused issued to the people before beginning the dastardly act.

According to her, the accused, before the ‘ugly’ act, warned that he would stab anyone who dared come near the ‘action spot’ with a view to rescuing her.

She said she was almost collapsing due to the ‘rough’ nature of the sex; when she realized that a Good Samaritan had appeared to rescue her.

According to her, she was stark naked and struggling to stand on her feet when the police appeared on the scene and arrested the accused.

She said the guy who rescued her, thereafter gave her jeans and t-shirt to wear and also took her to the hospital for medical attention.

According to the victim, the accused, after raping her, also robbed her of GH¢30, which she was going to use to travel to Accra where she is a seamstress apprentice at Nungua.

The victim told the court that since that lamentable experience, she had been traumatized to the point that she could not sleep nor urinate freely without experiencing pains.

She therefore entreated the court to critically examine the case and let the law take its course to serve as deterrent to others.

Obeng Jnr, the guy who rescued the victim, in his testimony, told the court that he was at the spot when the accused brought the victim to the place, tore her dress into shreds after which he also undressed himself.

He said after undressing himself, the accused put on a condom after which he pulled one of the chairs and asked the victim to sit on his erected penis.
According to him, the accused had taken the victim through a prolonged bout of sex before he appeared on the scene to rescue her.

He said the onlookers could not venture to save the victim because they were afraid they could be harmed by the accused, whom he said, had been terrorizing guys in the area.

Obeng told the court that before he made the attempt to rescue the victim, he told one of the onlookers to take away the accused person’s clothing and also call in the police quickly.

He said due to this arrangement, when the police arrived on the scene, the accused was still naked, together with the victim.

Obeng, who said he was given several hefty slaps by the accused when he attempted rescuing the victim, noted that the police, after arresting the accused, took along the condom he used.

He said after clothing the victim, they took her to the hospital for doctors to give her medical attention.

The accused, who wore black striped long sleeved shirt and blue jeans to match, similarly wept uncontrollably as the judge asked him intermittently to respond to the narration of the victim.

In view of this, Justice Frimpong adjourned the case to today to enable Bawuah, who was without a legal counsel, to pull himself together to be able to tell the court his side of the story.

The wife of the accused was among the large crowd of spectators who thronged the court to witness the proceedings which lasted close to an hour.

The accused, according to the prosecution team, on the dawn of Wednesday July 29, 2009, bundled the 19-year-old girl into a taxi at knife point at the Asafo Neoplan Station in Kumasi and took her into an open space drinking spot where he allegedly raped and robbed her of GH¢30.

This was when the seamstress apprentice had come to the station to board a bus to Accra after visiting her sister in Kumasi.

The accused, according to the prosecution, in his earlier caution statement to the police, admitted to having sex with the girl at an open space but however denied the two counts of rape and robbery leveled against him.

The prosecution said the accused claims that the victim is a prostitute who charged him GH¢10 before consenting to the act.



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Former Mr. Ghana In Rape Charge - 8/6/2009 -

Eric Adjei Bawuah, former Mr. Ghana

ERIC BAWUAH, the heavily-built ex-Mr. Ghana and gym instructor who was arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 19-year-old girl at an open-space drinking spot at Asafo Market, a Kumasi suburb, was on Monday remanded into prison custody for two days.

The suspect pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape and robbery and would reappear before the Circuit Court at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Wednesday August 5, 2009.

The State Attorney, E. Otuo Boison, who led the prosecution, told the court presided over by Justice Adjei Frimpong, to give him enough time to speak with all the witnesses in the case.

DAILY GUIDE in its Monday August 3, 2009 edition published a front page story captioned, ‘Gym Instructor In Sex Scandal’, in which a heavily built-man raped a 19-year-old girl (name withheld) in the full glare of onlookers.

Chief Inspector Mohammed Yussif Tanko of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Affairs Unit, in the story, said the victim underwent the ordeal when she came to the Asafo Lorry Station to board a car to Accra where she is a seamstress apprentice.

He continued that Bawuah, who was loitering around the vicinity, without provocation and at knife point, forcibly bundled the poor and hapless girl into a taxi, taking her to a nearby washing bay.

Chief Inspector Tanko noted that the stoutly built man thereafter dragged the victim to an open-space drinking spot near the washing bay, tore the young girl’s clothes into pieces, undressed, put on a condom and instructed the girl to sit on his erected penis.

The poor girl, he noted, screamed for help but the former Mr. Ghana contestant’s heavily-built body was enough to put the fear of God into the onlookers, as none of them dared rescue her until a courageous Good Samaritan appeared on the scene.
The rescuer then alerted the police who quickly rushed in to apprehend the suspect who had taken the girl through a prolonged round of hot sex to the chagrin of onlookers.

The suspect in his caution statement, Chief Inspector Tanko averred, admitted to having sex with the girl but pointed out that the victim consented to the act after taking GH¢10 from him. He as well denied using a knife to threaten the girl during the sex bout.

The police capo said the girl in her caution statement alleged that the suspect did not only rape her but also robbed her of an amount of GH¢30, an allegation the suspect denied.

[Muse A Muse]

Mr. Ghana huyo ana fanya mavituuzi, lol

[Next Level]

Huyo kijana hana adabu kabisa...tafanyaje sex hadharani aisee.......!

[mmaroroi]

Huko hakuna Madada poa nini?

[MzalendoHalisi]

Huyo ni kupigwa tu kitanzi!! kwani hana watoto wake mabiniti?

Mabinti wake wakifanyiwa hivyo ataonaje?

[Kibongoto]

Hizi gymn zinawapa kichaa watu wengi sana. Tutasikia mengi siku hizi na hawa mabaunsa wa mtaani. Kila mtu tu anataka kuwa na minguvu wakati hawajapimwa hata akili,inakuaje? Hatari kubwa !

[Buruburu]

Ukame ukizidi, inaleta hii mambo ya kubaka watu.

Kwani huko Ughana hakuna vichangu jamaa kutolea ukame mpaka ufanye unyama huu? Huo U Mr. Ghana unafikiri kila mdada atakutaka. lol

[Mundu]

Sad story, let the rule of law takes it course!! Thanks God that we still have good Samaritans around. Bila ya huyu jamaa, huyu dada yangemkuta makubwa zaidi ya hayo!! Lol, ustaarabu umeisha jamani.

[Kinyambiss]

he is worse than an animal and deserves to be shot in public or have his penis and testicles cut off and fed to pigs while he watches (no anesthesia)

[Mundu]

he is worse than an animal and deserves to be shot in public or have his penis and testicles cut off and fed to pigs while he watches (no anesthesia)

Ndugu yangu umekuwa mkali sana, angalia lisije kutoka chozi kama la Pinda, acha sheria ifuate mkondo wake mkuu!! Ila inauma sana mjomba...

[Mundu]

he is worse than an animal and deserves to be shot in public or have his penis and testicles cut off and fed to pigs while he watches (no anesthesia)

Angalia ndugu yangu lisije kutoka chozi kama la Pinda, acha sheria ifuate mkondo wake. ila inauma sana mjomba!

[WomanOfSubstance]

Pervert tu huyu!
Mungu amlaani!

[LazyDog]

Looks like the guy is being framed

[Zogwale]

Jamani halafu jamaa limeoa na mke wake alikuwa mahakamani kushuhudia uharamia wa mme wake!!! Kweli ndoa nyingine ni ndoana!! Awe castrated!! Hivi huko hakuna sharia!!! Angekoma ubishi!!! Waikate kabisa!!