The Amasaman Circuit Court has ordered a woman who threw boiling palm nut soup on her boyfriend’s wife to pay a fine of 100 penalty units (GH¢1,200).
When Afia Agyeiwaa was arraigned in November 2023, she merely admitted to harming Madam Vida Ntiamoah; however, her sentencing was postponed until February 15, 2024.
Agyeiwaa, a two-month-old nursing mother who was pregnant at the time, requested leniency from the court chaired by Madam Enid Marfo-Sau.
The fact that she was a nursing mother and that Madam Vida, the complainant, had informed the prosecution that the matter had been resolved amicably at home were taken into consideration by the court when imposing the sentence.
On the day of judgment, the complainant also informed the court that she wished to end the trial; however, the court determined that it was too late and agreed to consider this when determining the sentence.
Madam Vida, the complainant, is a trader who resides in Mayera Dunyo, as previously disclosed to the court by Police Chief Inspector Frederick Awuah-Ansah.
Afia Agyeiwaa, a resident of Mayera Dunyo, was a seven-month pregnant unemployed woman.
The complainant’s spouse, Kwadwo Dwuma, is a fetish priest with four children, according to Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah.
He stated that Agyeiwaa was the complainant’s husband’s girlfriend and that the complainant and her spouse had previously managed his shrine but had stopped owing to circumstances.
The prosecution claimed that in 2022, the complainant’s husband advised her that if she did not assist him with his work again, he would seek help from someone else, to which the complainant agreed.
The Court heard that in the same year, the complainant’s husband went to Asante Akyem Agogo and brought Agyeiwaa into the house where he lived with the complainant.
Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah said they all lived in the same compound but in different apartments.
He said that since Agyeiwaa entered the house, she had been insulting the complaint, but she ignored her.
On September 19, 2023, the complainant was making a meal in front of her room when she went to retrieve something from the kitchen.
According to Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah, Agyeiwaa, who was cooking behind the kitchen, confronted the complainant after noticing her standing in one of the rooms and watching her through a window.
Agyeiwaa then insulted the complainant, calling her a stupid woman and a village woman, among other abusive words.
The complainant responded that if she were a village woman, Agyeiwaa’s mother was also a villager, and she left, the prosecution told the court.
Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah said when the complainant returned to the kitchen to pick something, the convict saw her and took the hot palm nut soup she was preparing from the fire and poured it on her back and neck in front of her husband.
The complainant then complained with the police, who issued her a medical report form to go to the hospital for treatment and then report back.
This resulted in Agyeiwaa’s arrest, and following an investigation, she was prosecuted and brought to court, police said.
