National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to remit the jail sentence of actress Akuapem Poloo.
Sammy Gyamfi said the sentence was harsh and high-handed.
“The sentence given to @IamAkuapemPoloo is very harsh and high-handed. Given the fact that she is a first offender, pleaded guilty and showed remorse, non-custodial sentence would have been appropriate. Sad! I pray @NAkufoAddo remits her sentence or pardons her. #FreeAkuapemPoloo,” he said in a tweet on Friday.
Socialite Rosemond Alade Brown, popularly known as Akuapem Poloo, has received a 90-day prison sentence after being found guilty of stripping naked in front of her seven-year-old son.
The judgement was given on Friday, April 16 by an Accra Circuit Court.
The single mother pleaded guilty to all three counts, one of which is publication of obscene material in 2020.
She is supposed to spend 90 days in prison for each count but the terms are to run concurrently.
On Wednesday, April 14, Akuapem Poloo was convicted on her own plea but asked to go for a pregnancy test before judgement was given.
The test came out negative.
In pronouncing judgement, Justice Christiana Cann considered some extenuating circumstances such as the fact that the wailing Rosemond Brown has had no brush with the law and the fact that she is a single mother and the trauma her son would be going through.
The case was brought before the police in June, 2020 by the Executive Director of Child Rights International, Bright Appiah.
He cited Section 2 of the Children’s Act, demanding that the enforcement of the dignity of the child.
According to the judge, the accused did not consider the dignity of her son and her act not only affected his dignity but morally corrupted his mind as well as those who came into contact with the picture.
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SOURCE: ATLFMNEWSONLINE
