Eastern Region

A 19-year-old girl has cruelly slashed the throat of her day-old baby and dumped the body in a cocoa farm at Atenrom, a village near Akyem Etwereso in the Eastern Region.

The suspect, whose name was given as Patience, alias Mummie, self-delivered a baby boy last Friday dawn. But claimed some parts of it looked like an animal.

The suspect, according to a witness, Nana Owusu, took the baby into a nearby bush and slashed the baby’s throat with a kitchen knife.

Mr Owusu said Patience, who already has a five-year-old child, is believed to be suffering from depression.

According to him, the teenager left the village to stay in Accra where she got pregnant. She recently returned to her village in the Akyemansa District.

The teenager, the witness said, refused to disclose the whereabouts of the baby. After several demands by her uncle and elders of the village.

Her refusal compelled the youth of the community to mount a search and after several hours the lifeless body of the baby wrapped in a sack was found in a cocoa farm.

The suspect has since been arrested by the Akyem Ofoase District Police to assist in the investigations.

Meanwhile, the body of the baby has been deposited at the Oda Government Hospital morgue.

Source:FoxpoolNews.com

A Police officer identified as Sgt Moses Tetteh Nartey has been gunned down by Highway robbers in Kade in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Another officer also sustained gunshot injuries and is also on admission at the St Dominic Government Hospital in Akwatia.

According to a Police Sitrep, the two were part of a team of Police Officers who boarded a Taxi to confront some armed robbers who had blocked the Pramkese – Takyiman motor road and were robbers unsuspecting passengers of their valuables.

The reports continued that the Police upon the tipoff, boarded a Taxi and headed straight to the location of the incident with the intention of confronting the robbers.

The team on reaching a section of the road at Ada Kwasi Junction, spotted a mini Bus ahead of them at about hundred meters away, they then noticed that the mini bus has stopped compelling them to also slow down.

Suddenly two unidentified men holding AK 47 riffle emerged from the bush onto the road and flashed a touch light onto the occupants of the taxi and identified them to be Policemen and started firing at them indiscriminately.

Sgt Moses Tetteh Nartey sustained two gun shot wound at his chest and one on his head while G/Cpl Christian Totimeh also sustained a gunshot wound on his left rib forcing the team to retreat and rush the injured officers to Pramkese Health Centre for treatment.

Sgt Moses Nartey Tetteh was pronounced dead on arrival while Cpl. Christian Totimeh was referred to St Dominics Hospital, Akwatia and was admitted for treatment while the body of Sgt Moses Tetteh Nartey has since been deposited at Kade Government Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.

The District Commander and the station officer visited the injured officer at Akwatia and found his condition to be stable.

Meanwhile, a reinforcement team from the Divisional Police Command, Asamankese also came to augment the strength of the local Police.

Source:ghanasecure.com

Tag: Eastern Region

19-year-old girl kill her day-old baby.

Police Officer heartlessly Shot in the Chest and Head.