Nii Lamptey-Mills was arrested on Wednesday, August 18 and placed in police custody while the Attorney-General’s office readies to send him to court, but Priscilla Adjei, thought to be 16 years and a student of the school when she got pregnant by Lamptey-Mills, says she consented to have sex with her propriety.
She told Joy News’ Seth Kwame Boateng her pregnancy did not result from a single sex act or rape, but as consenting adults, they engaged in sex several times before she got pregnant. She believes her child’s father is being harassed unnecessarily and should be set free.
“The issue has been solved. We went to the court and it has been solved so I don’t see why they are going on with those things. See, the man did not rape me, we had sex, and I didn’t get pregnant because of the first, we had sex several times before I got pregnant. He did not rape me. I was speaking to him for a while before I got pregnant. I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“He did not defile me, I gave myself to him because I want to. I dated him, he said he wanted sex and I accepted it, he did not force me…so I don’t know what is going on.”
Priscilla claimed she was 18 when she got pregnant, contrary to earlier claims she was under age, saying on the day of Lamptey Mills’ latest arrest, she had spoken to him of the up-coming third birthday of their child, only for him to tell her moments later that he had been arrested again.
“…He has done nothing wrong … I don’t know why they are still pestering the man, I don’t know why they are still disturbing the man. I don’t know.”
A Circuit Court in Accra on October 22, 2009, discharged Lamptey-Mills from the charge of compulsory marriage following the intervention of the victim’s father/complainant in the case, Mr Odartey Lamptey, who told the court that he had decided to withdraw his complaint following a resolution of the matter by parties in the case.
The Presiding Judge, Mrs Georgina Mensah Datsa, had ruled that the charge leveled against Lamptey-Mills was a misdemeanour for which the law allowed an out-of-court settlement.
Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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