A Takoradi Circuit court has fined Josephine Panyin Mensah, the woman who faked her kidnapping and pregnancy in Takoradi GH¢7,200 on grounds of publication of false news.
The court presided over by His Worship Michael Kwadwo also acquitted her of the charge of deceiving a public officer.
In September 2021, Josephine Panyin Mensah was in the media for her alleged kidnapping story, which worried her family and the country.
Mrs Josephine Mensah was found in Axim, several miles away from Takoradi, she was mute, unkempt, and without any sign of the said pregnancy.
Claims that she delivered on the same day she was allegedly kidnapped with the baby taken by her supposed kidnappers were scrutinized after the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah said the pregnancy was fake.
Further investigations by the police affirmed the Minister’s report on the matter that there was no pregnancy and that the kidnapping incident was also staged.
The Medical Superintendent at the Axim Government Hospital also confirmed that the accused was a healthy non-pregnant pre-menopausal woman when she was admitted.
