The woman seen in the viral video being assaulted at Ofankor in the Greater Accra Region has offered a detailed account of the events leading up to the incident, describing it as the latest in a pattern of abuse by her estranged husband, John Odartey Lamptey.
She says Lamptey “deliberately lured” her back to the house by falsely claiming their youngest child was ill, even though she had moved out months earlier due to repeated violence.
According to her, she arrived from her village late in the evening only to find the children playing, contradicting Lamptey’s claim.
She recounts that he later admitted he made up the story to compel her return. That night, he demanded sex, which she refused, explaining that they had been separated for five months. She says she informed him she would return to the village the next morning if that was his motive.
The victim says the situation escalated the next day when Lamptey prevented her from getting close to the children, locked the room, and “threatened to kill” her before launching the assault.
She alleges that he stripped her, beat her with a stick, stepped on her, threatened to cut her hand with a knife, and “smeared pepper” on her thighs and private parts before forcibly having sex with her. A neighbour briefly intervened to take the knife, but the violence continued afterwards.
She notes that this was not the first assault and that she had previously filed complaints at the Tesano and Ofankor police stations “with evidence,” but no action was taken.
Lamptey was arrested on November 17, 2025, at the family residence along with his siblings, Grace Kushie Lamptey and Louis Odartey Lamptey.
Police say the siblings attempted to attack a tenant they suspected of recording and circulating the video. All three have been remanded by the Magistrate Court at the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit and are expected back in court on December 3, 2025.
The couple has two children, aged five and two. Police investigations are ongoing.
