Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho
A 23 -year old mother of three children, Xornam Atitsogbui has been arrested by the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) for abandoning her one week old baby girl in a bush at Mawuli Estate in Ho.
Police investigations revealed that on November 24, the suspect gave birth to a baby girl at the Ho Municipal hospital and was discharged the same day.
On November 30 she was found in the house by her brother crying without the baby and when questioned by the brother, the suspect told him that the baby had felt sick on the night of the previous day and that when she sent her to the regional hospital for treatment the child was pronounced dead on arrival by a nurse.
She claimed that the nurse took the alleged dead baby from her with the promised to bury her and she obliged to the offer.
The Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in charge of the regional directorate of DOVVSU, Madam Rita Narh disclosed that the brother was not convinced and decided to ascertain the facts in a follow-up to the hospital.
She said the alleged dead baby was found abandoned in front of the Suncity Video Library in Ho half naked with the umbilical cord partially healed.
Madam Narh said the child was brought to the DOVSSU headquarters and after investigations suspect was arrested.
In a statement to the police, the suspect said she could not cater for an extra mouth as she already had two children adding that the man who impregnated her had denied responsibility and fled to Nigeria.
The suspect claimed that the parents of the alleged man have also not been helpful and so she decided to abandon the child.
The DOVVSU has charged the suspect with offence of child abandonment contrary to section 96 Act 29 of the criminal code of 1960.
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