The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) at the Kasoa Divisional Police Command, has arrested three suspects for allegedly stealing a baby at Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu Senya East municipality.
The suspects are Magdalene Nana Adwoa Boafo, 28, Faustina Binney, 32, and a teacher, Eunice Koomson, 36.
According to police sources, Magdalene first approached the mother of the baby when she was pregnant and selling sachet water by the roadside at Ofaakor.
She reportedly offered to support the mother financially until she delivered the baby.
Magdalene later introduced her to two other suspects.
Together, they rented an apartment at Kasoa Lamptey, a suburb of the Adam Nana Electoral Area for the mother.
To hide their real intentions, the three women continued to assist the young woman until she delivered at the Kasoa Polyclinic on July 10, 2024.
After she was discharged from the health facility, the women reportedly introduced her to another woman they claimed was a nurse at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The nurse, they said, was supposed to treat the baby for an unknown infection.
However, two days later, they came in tears to inform the mother that the baby had died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and had been buried.
The mother’s landlord, Ebenezer Arthur, said he became suspicious of their story and reported the matter to Kasoa DOVVSU leading to their arrest.
Preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the women had planned to steal the baby all along.
Baby theft is not uncommon in Ghana.
The suspect was the neighbour of the child’s father.
On the day of the incident, the nursing mother had asked an 11-year-old child to help her look after her baby while she visited the toilet.
It was reported that not long after the mother left for the toilet, the suspect came to the compound, took the baby from the 11-year-old child and went to the toilet to tell the baby’s mother that the 11-year-old child wasn’t taking good care of the baby hence she was going to help her take care of the child until she was done.
She then took the baby out of the house on Friday, October 20, and neither Monica nor the baby could be found.
Whenever people reached out to her on the phone, she would tell them to meet her at a specific location for the baby but always failed to turn up.
The matter was reported to the Kasoa police, who traced and found Gifty Monica on Monday, October 23 at Lapaz and arrested her.