BABY FOUND IN TOILET ALIVE

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A 23-year old apprentice seamstress at Sawua in the Bosomtwe district of Ashanti, Esther Duah together with her boyfriend popularly called Akwasi Hit, have been arrested by the Asokwa Police in Kumasi for dumping their day-old baby girl in a public KVIP at Sawua. 

The two suspects are currently in the Asokwa Police custody pending thorough investigation to unravel all the circumstances surrounding the matter, while the baby is on admission at the Mother and Babies Unit of the Kumasi South Hospital where she is under close monitoring. 

A Staff Midwife at the Sawua Health Centre, Mrs. Rita Duncan told Ashanti Today that the incident occurred last Monday. 

According to her, the baby who had the umbilical cord still not severed, was found through her cry by a resident of the town who was attending to nature’s call at the KVIP of the Sawua D/A Primary School. 

The Midwife said the concerned resident then rushed to the town and mobilized her colleagues who helped to retrieve the baby from the latrine by first breaking the concrete slabs. 

She said the mother of the baby, who had for the entire period of the pregnancy vehemently denied being pregnant for no apparent reason, would only admit the abandoning the baby in the toilet after the Assembly Man of the town threatened to cause her arrest. 

She claimed that she was not aware that it was a baby since she only experienced that something had dropped from her into the toilet, while she was attending to nature’s call. 

Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Department of Social Development, formerly Social Welfare Department, has been called in to take the baby to the Children’s Home upon her release from the hospital.

  

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