Accra Circuit Court Frees Prophet Kofi Yirenkyi aka "Jesus Onetouch"

Lady Luck has finally smiled on Prophet Kofi Yirenkyi aka "Jesus Onetouch", the Founder and General Overseer of Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, after an Accra High Court this morning ruled in his favour to quash a 10-year sentence handed to him by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.

This follows an appeal by the Man of God (OneTouch) that Justice Georgina Mensah-Datsa, the Circuit Court judge, had erred in her judgment by not taking into consideration serious doubts created in the case of the prosecution.

The prosecution, led by Principal State Attorney Anthony Rexford Wiredu, and counsel for Onetouch, K. N. Adomako Acheampong, did not argue their stands on the appeal in court but only said that they relied on the processes they had filed.

A colleague man of God, Nicholas Osei popularly known as Prophet Kumchacha, who was in court today, confirmed the news to PeaceFM News a short while ago.

According to him, following the landmark ruling, the Nsawam Prison authorities are currently processing Jesus OneTouch's papers for his immediate release.

It would be recalled that over a year ago, Prophet Onetouch was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court for defilement and incest.

Justice Georgina Mensah Datsa found him guilty of having sexual intercourse with his 10-year-old biological daughter but the Prophet, who believed he had been framed up, while being escorted to jail still maintained that he did not commit the crime, screaming, “God should kill me if I defiled my daughter”.

Justice Mensah-Datsa, currently a High Court judge, in her judgment that lasted for about 25 minutes indicated that the victim was truthful as her evidence was corroborated by prosecution witnesses and medical reports.

According to the judge, the two reports from doctors who had examined the victim had indicated that the victim’s hymen was not intact and that corroborated the victim’s story.

After her judgment, she told Onetouch it was not the end of the road for him, adding that he could appeal against her decision if he was not satisfied with it.

Jesus Onetouch, after serving five months of his jail term, bounced back and filed an appeal challenging the judgment by the Circuit Court on grounds that the judge had erred in the judgment because the defence had created sufficient doubts in the case of the prosecution which could have led to his acquittal.

Onetouch, the appellant, observed that “the trial judge convicted and sentenced him without adverting her mind on the evidence given by one of the prosecution’s own witnesses, ACP Dr. Samuel Amo-Mensah, an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Police Hospital.

The judge, he also indicated, did not take into consideration the testimony of a police officer stationed at Akropong who was part of the investigating team that built the case docket and also served as an independent witness of the appellant.

These two pieces of evidence, the appellant noted, raised serious doubts in the case of the prosecution.

The appellant, who observed that Mrs. Datsa failed “to advert her mind on the sheer implausibility of the evidence, especially that of Bernice Owiredu, the mother and victim adduced for the prosecution”, is praying the High Court to quash the decision of the lower court because it was an erroneous one.

It is reported that while in prison, Onetouch thought of killing himself and as a result had embarked on hunger strike to end it all.

However, through counselling he managed to adjust himself to prison life.

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