A
girl who was given out to a priest at a tender age before being
sexually exploited and enslaved has been freed by a man of God.
Mary was freed from the bondage successfully
A woman who was separated at birth from her family in a sadistic
ritual to 'atone' for an abominable act committed by her ancestors, has
been freed after many years of living in bondage.
The woman identified as Mary from Ghana grew up in the shrine of a
fetish priest - naked, confused and abused. She was later taken to a man
of God who gave her the freedom she has been looking for years.
Speaking at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria, Mary narrated how her family gave her as a “virgin sacrifice”
to Korle Shrine in order to “atone for the sin” of her
great-great-grandfather which was said to be behind the curse of
premature deaths occurring in the family.
“They took me to the riverside and initiated me on a journey of
no return… I was then introduced to an old priest as my husband,” she recounted, explaining that all this happened in her tender infancy.
The elderly fetish priest would sexually satisfy himself with Mary
at whim along with the other 500 maidens forcefully ‘imprisoned’ in the
shrine.
“The priest would just point at you. He could call us chicken,
goat or cow – because we were cows to him – then, he would sleep with us
just like that,” she tearfully described.
Her duties included preparing ‘charms’ for people seeking
protection at the shrine and beseeching the gods that more sin be
committed so more innocent virgins could be entrapped into the vicious
cycle.
As Mary grew older, she broke protocol by taking ventures outside
the shrine’s confines, one day being spotted Unclad by a group of
foreign tourists who took her picture.
Six months later, her ‘freedom’ was procured by the foreigners in
conjunction with an NGO called ‘International Needs’, leading to the
release of the 500 young girls who were in ritual servitude at the
shrine.
However, physical liberation did not stop Mary from a living a life
of spiritual slavery. Unable to trace her real family, Mary moved to 11
different locations but continued to experience “a series of rejection, maltreatment and abuse”.
Men had an unnerving sexual attraction for her and exploited her
innocence at will. “The demons would enter the men and make them sleep
with me,” she stated, adding that each promiscuous encounter was
followed by dismissal and hatred from the men involved.
Plagued by terrible nightmares of snakes and increasing mental
instability, Mary eventually found herself begging on the streets for
survival at Madina Market in Accra. There, she finally met a ‘Good
Samaritan’ and narrated her sordid story to her.
“She said that the only person would could deliver me from all those demons was Prophet T.B. Joshua,” Mary explained, adding that the lady fully paid for her journey from Ghana to The SCOAN in Lagos, Nigeria.
After Mary was ‘delivered’ from the “demons that held her in bondage”, she stayed in the church for several weeks. “Before, I never knew I was a normal human being,” she testified, stating that she could sleep peacefully for the first time in her life after prayer.
T.B. Joshua used his influence and resources to locate Mary’s
long-lost mother, who was residing in Ivory Coast, and brought her to
Nigeria to meet with her daughter in an emotional reconciliation.
The SCOAN additionally gave $1,500 to Mary to start her life afresh. “I
have seen powers upon powers but there is a power beyond powers – the
God who used Prophet T.B. Joshua to liberate me from darkness,” the former slave concluded.
It was gathered that the video evoked a storm of reactions, with
several of Joshua’s foreign supporters calling on the Ghanaian
government to take urgent steps to address the “inhumane treatment”
still being experienced by victims of the Trokosi system.
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