A 19-year-old girl has callously slashed the throat of her newly born baby and dumped the body on a cocoa farm.
The incident occurred at Akyem Atenrom near Etwereso in the Akyemansa District of the Eastern Region.
Mybrytfmonline.com has gathered that the suspect identified as Patience alias Mummie delivered a baby boy Friday dawn around 4:00 am but alleged that parts of the baby’s body looked like an animal. Patience took the baby into a nearby bush and slashed the throat with a kitchen knife.
Patience reported to be a teenage single mother with a five-year-old child is alleged to be suffering from a mild mental problem.
A witness, Nana Owusu narrated that “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 Otanduro near Akyem Etwereso in Akyemansa District. When she came to the family noticed she was pregnant but she denied it so on Friday dawn she entered into labor and delivered herself in a room where she slept with her child”.
“She took the newborn baby into a nearby cocoa farm, slashed the throat, and dumped him in the bush. The family became suspicious that the girl has delivered but the baby was missing. Elders in the community were informed and she was impressed to show the whereabouts of the baby but she refused to compel the youth of the community to mount a search which the lifeless body of the baby was discovered”
The suspect has since been arrested by the Akyem Adubiase Police to assist in the investigation.
Meanwhile, the body of the baby has been deposited at the hospital morgue.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
