A 19-Year-Old SHS 3 student Poisons His 10-Day Old Son With Weedicide
The Police at Praso in the Assin North District of the Central Region have embarked on a manhunt for a father who has allegedly poisoned his ten-day-old baby with weedicide.
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The suspect, Godfred Nelson, 19, an SHS 3 student, impregnated his 16-year-old girlfriend at Adanse Praso and instructed her to terminate the pregnancy since he was not ready to have a child.
After several attempts to abort the pregnancy including drinking concoctions the girlfriend had no choice but to deliver, the suspect now chose to kill the innocent child 10 days after he was born
The grandfather of the victim, Kwaku Arkoh speaking explained to the media that,the mother of the child, Esther Baah met her baby crying uncontrollably when she returned from the bathhouse.
She then decided to breastfeed him but observed a foamy substance in the mouth of the baby amid vomiting and also found liquid stains in the child’s clothes.
While the innocent baby was struggling to suck the breast, he was rushed to the Assin Praso Presbyterian Hospital for medical attention where it was discovered that the baby had been poisoned.
The suspect, Nelson, otherwise known as Paa Akwasi upon noticing the degree of the crime he had committed escaped from the house.
Meanwhile, the mother of the suspect, Afia Tawiah who was irritated and disappointed by the actions of her son charged the police to arrest him to face the full rigors of the law.
