A 19-year-old girl has been
arrested by Police at Akyem Edubiase in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern
Region for allegedly slashing the throat of her newly born baby boy and dumping
the body in a bush.
The suspect, identified as
Patience alias Mummy said to be a teenage single mother with a five-year-old
child, claimed the baby was deformed -with some of his body parts looking like
an animal.
The incident occurred at Akyem
Atenrom near Akyem Adubiase in Akyemansa District.
“She is a single mother with a five-year-old child. She left the
village to stay in Accra where she got pregnant again and recently came to her
village Akyem Atenrom near Akyem Etwereso in Akyemansa District. When she came
the family noticed she was pregnant but she denied it so on Friday dawn she
entered into labour and delivered herself in a room,” Frank Owusu,
a witness narrated to Kasapa News.
“She took the newborn baby into a nearby cocoa farm, slashed the
throat with a kitchen knife she took along, and dumped him in the bush. The
family became suspicious after noticing that the girl has delivered but the
baby was missing. Elders in the community were informed and she was impressed
upon to show the whereabouts of the baby but she refused compelling the youth
of the community to mount a search leading to the lifeless body of the baby
being discovered.”
The body of the baby has been
deposited at the hospital morgue while the suspect alleged to have mild mental
illness is assisting Police in an investigation.
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