The Police at Akyem Edubiase have arrested a 19-year-old girl identified as Patience for slashing the throat of her 19-year-old baby with a kitchen knife and dumping the body in a cocoa farm.
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According to reports, Patience killed the baby because she claims the baby has some of her body parts looking like an animal.
A witness identified as Frank Owusu told Starr News 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 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”.
“She took the newborn baby into a nearby cocoa farm, slashed the throat with a kitchen knife, 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 upon to show the whereabouts of the baby but she refused compelling the youth of the community to mount a search which the lifeless body of the baby was discovered”.
However, the body of the baby has been deposited at the morgue for autopsy while the suspect aid the police with their investigations.
Source: ghgossip.com