Queenie Akuffo
An Accra Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Court has scheduled delivery of its judgement in the case in which 26-year-old Queenie Akuffo is standing trial for sexually assaulting her co-tenant with a vibrator for March 3, 2017.
The court, presided over by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, fixed the date yesterday after Andrew Vortia, lawyer for the accused, had informed the court that he intended to file his address at the end of the trial.
The judge as a result, ordered the lawyer to file the said address by February 15, 2017 and return to court on March 3 for the decision of the court in respect of the case.
State prosecutors led by Detective Inspector Judith B. Asante marshaled five witnesses, including the investigator, to testify in the               one-year-old case while Queenie presented one Dorcas Manubea Atiemo, a cleaner at the Ministry of Information, as her sole witness.
Dorcas had mounted a spirited defence of the accused person whom she described as her (Dorcas’) sister.
Queenie allegedly committed the act at about 6pm on January 25, 2016 at Ablekuma in Accra, where both of them reside.
According to the prosecution, Queenie asked other witnesses who were with her to leave her room and then locked her bedroom; but a 13-year-old girl went to peep through the window of the accused person and saw her (Queenie) inserting the artificial male organ into the  private part of Janet (the victim).
The victim’s brother, one Nana Sasu, reportedly saw the act and alerted her mother (the complainant).
They rushed to the aid of Janet and saw her lying naked in Queenie’s bedroom with vomit all over her body.
The artificial organ was found on top of Queenie’s wardrobe while a video recording of the act was also found on her Infinix mobile phone.
Queenie, in her caution statement, admitted the offence.3
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
jeffdegraft44@yahoo.com