Patricia Asieduwaa, alias Agradaa, aged 40 years and a pastor, has been charged with non-consensual sharing of intimate images of a prophet.
Agradaa is standing trial with four other people – Enock Owusu Kissi, 33, Charles Omane, aka One Gig, 39, Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, 47 and Andy, currently at large – have been accused of abetment of crime, namely non-consenual sharing of intimate images.
Agradaa, Enock Owusu Kissi and Charles Omane were arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Evelyn Asamoah, on the aforementioned offences but they all pleaded not guilty.
They were granted bail in the sum of GH¢100,000.00 with three sureties, who are family members each.
The facts of the case
According to the prosecution, led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Emmanuel Haligah, the complainant in the case is a Prophet and resides at Teshie.
He added that the first accused (A1) in the case is Agradaa, who resides at Weija, while Enoch Owusu Kissi (A2) is a media practitioner and stays at Weija. Charles Omane, aka One Gig (A3), is a businessman residing at Nungua, and Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, a Television (TV) Presenter is a resident of Nungua and one Andy who is at large.
ASP Haligah narrated to the court that sometime in 2020 A1, who is the owner of a TV station called “Thunder TV’ hosted a programme on the said TV station and intentionally showed the naked pictures of the complainant on live TV and made mockery of him, with all the other accused persons who were panelists on the said programme encouraging her.
The said programme was also streamed live on Youtube and Facebook, where a witness in the case saw it and informed the complainant.
A1 also intentionally distributed the intimate image of the complainant to a witness, in this case via WhatsApp.
The complainant reported the matter to the Police for assistance and during investigation all the accused persons, with the exception of A5, were arrested for investigation.
Police retrieved the intimate images of the complainant, which were shared or distributed by the first accused and in the course of investigation, the programme on which the intimate images were shown was retrieved by the Police and played back to all the accused persons who identified themselves in the video of the programme hosted by Patricia.
He said after investigation, the accused persons were charged with the offences and arraigned before the court.
