Editor of the Ghanaian Publisher Newspaper, Yaw Obeng Manu says the family of the 28 year old woman, Josephine Simmons who allegedly was kidnapped and lost her unborn child should face the full force of the law.
According to him, it is high time the Ghanaian society moves from the era of “let it go and pardon people for their wrongs to letting people own up for offences and crimes they commit.”
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“When someone commits an offence or breaks the law, they should be punished as deserved. For me, the woman, husband, brother and mother all came out to say she was pregnant and had been kidnapped but it ended up being false. The necessary sanctions and punishments should be meted out to them,” he stated.
In the Editors’ Take Edition of the Happy Morning Show with Samuel Eshun, Yaw Obeng Manu noted that information from the state security apparatus indicates that she was not pregnant. “To me this whole thing was a movie which was not well scripted and I am pained Josephine was subjected to this kind of situation. But I think whether she was pregnant or not, kidnapped or not, she was involved in the decision making process and needs to punished alongside anyone who supported the assertion and caused panic.”
Per his observation, members of the police team assigned to investigate the matter may have suffered injury “and if that happened it would’ve been problematic. These people should be punished and the law must be made to work. It is time people are punished for offences they commit. We should stop letting such things go because what they did is against the law and they need to be punished.”
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Background
Josephine Panyin Mensah Simons has reportedly confessed to a team of medical and investigation officers attending to her at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region that she was not pregnant, a top police source has told Takoradi based Empire Fm.
The top police source further told Empire News she has since asked for forgiveness amidst uncontrollable tears from the husband Michael Simons who appears to be innocent and in a state of shock.
The victim now a suspect, according to the police, has not had sexual intercourse with the husband Michael for the past three (3) to four (4) months claiming that she could lose her baby.
The source further revealed that during their observation of Josephine since Tuesday, September 21, 2021, she neither spotted nor requested a sanitary pad to soak blood that might be dropping from her as a result of her given birth.
The police source added that all laboratory tests and analyses done so far suggest that the she was neither pregnant nor given birth.
However, a senior medical officer at the Effia-Nkwanta hospital name withheld, the facility providing medical assistance to Josephine says the victim was probably suffering from Pseudocyesis.
Pseudocyesis is defined by the DSM-5 as a false belief of being pregnant that is associated with objective signs and reported symptoms of pregnancy, which may include abdominal enlargement, reduced menstrual flow, amenorrhea, subjective sensation of fetal movement, nausea, breast engorgement and secretions, and labor.
