Takoradi Woman cries and explains why she faked her pregnancy as police prepare to prosecute her.

The pot of lies that were told by Josephine Panyin Simson about her pregnancy had burst. In her confession to the investigative team of the Police, Josephine disclosed that her pregnancy was meant to impress her husband. But there is more to it.

According to her [as gathered on interviews taken on Takoradi-based Empire FM], she lost her pregnancy just after her first trimester [thus in her four months of the pregnancy] but feared how the husband would treat it when the news is broken to him. She is reported to have informed the mother about the lost pregnancy, and the two secretly devised a plan to pretend the pregnancy was intact, not only to the husband but to neighbors and friends who might 'curse' her over the failed pregnancy.

 

In her desperation, she managed some savings and bought a silicone baby bump and wore it throughout the remaining trimester. The husband never suspected her nor the mother.

 

However, after the lost pregnancy, Josephine denied her husband sex [that is five solid months] under a pretext that doctors had advised her against it because the pregnancy had issues. She managed to procure some medications for pregnant women but the husband never enquired to know how religious she took them.