Social media personality and actress, Rosemond Brown aka Akuapem Poloo has been granted a GHc80,000 bail pending an appeal against her 90 days jail term.
An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey ordered her to provide two sureties who are to be justified.
The controversial socialite is also to deposit her passport with the court’s registrar and can only travel with the express permission of the court.
Again, she is to report to the case investigator every two weeks until the final determination of the appeal.
Akuapem Poloo was sentenced to 90 days imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court for publishing a nude picture of herself taken with her 7-year-old son who was in his underwear.
Her lawyer, Andrew Vorti appealed against the sentencing seeking an Accra High Court to institute a fine instead.
The application indicates that “that the ninety (90) days sentence is so short that if the applicant [Akuapem Poloo] is not admitted to bail immediately by the time the appeal is heard, she would have finished serving the sentence.
It states that the grant of bail to a convicted person is not automatic but discretionary but added that exceptional circumstances are necessitating the grant of bail to the convict.
The application avers that Poloo is “a single parent and a young offender and as such, her first brawl with the law, ought not to have been met with a custodial sentence as the first option in the circumstances of the case.”
“That the child whose right the Appellant is said to have violated, which the law is seeking to protect should not become the victim of circumstances because of the hash custodial sentence imposed on the mother by the trial court”, it added.
Akuapem Poloo was facing three charges of publication of obscene materials, engaging in domestic violence, conduct that in any way undermines another person’s privacy or integrity and engaging in domestic violence namely conduct that in any way detracts or is likely to detract from another person’s dignity and worth as a human being.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak
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