THE police in Ho have arrested a 35-year-old woman of Sokode-Bagble for burying alive a new-born baby few hours after delivery.
The woman (name withheld) was said to have buried the baby about 100 metres away from her home.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Ho Divisional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Owusu Berko, said the woman was married to a taxi driver whom she had visited in Ho a day before the incident.
He said she realised during the visit that she was bleeding and told the husband that she wanted to go back home.
Upon reaching home, the suspect realised that she was in labour.
The divisional commander said it was later reported that when the woman had given birth, she buried the baby without informing her relatives or any authority in the town.
Information gathered revealed that the woman, who already has two children, was delivered of a baby about 11 years ago and she dumped it on a plantain farm, but the child was rescued.
Meanwhile, the police have exhumed the body of the baby with the view to pursuing an in-depth investigation into the matter.
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