Police rescue one-month-old baby dumped at a farm
Police in the Volta Region have rescued a baby boy believed to be about a month old dumped in a bush at Agbaflome, a suburb of Akatsi.
The infant was picked up on 27 October 2021 from a cassava farm after community members reported to the police that a baby had been abandoned at a farm.
The Public Relations Officer of the Volta Regional Police Command Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mrs Elizabeth Effia Tenge, confirmed the incident and indicated that the boy was found naked on a piece of cloth, crying helplessly.
The baby has been taken to the Akatsi Municipal Hospital for examination, and reports suggest that he is stable and in good health.
The police are collaborating with relevant stakeholders to locate the little boy’s mother to assist in investigations.
Such incidents are not uncommon in various parts of the country, with the parents usually taking such extreme options due to poverty.
Other similar incidences in previous years:
21 August, 2020
A 38-year-old woman was arrested by the Drobo Police in the Bono Region for allegedly abandoning her day-old baby boy at a public toilet building.
The married woman, Akua Serwaa, told the police the baby was born out of an illicit affair.
She said her husband had been away in Dubai, and throwing away the baby was to avoid the shame of her unfaithfulness.
12 August, 2020
A 35-year-old woman, Eunice Brobbey, was arrested for abandoning her newborn baby on a refuse dump in Bediako, a town in the Bono Region.
A woman, who went to dump refuse at the site, rescued the baby.
The infant was later sent to the palace of the town’s queen-mother after nobody came to claim the baby after a series of announcements at the town’s community centres.
Together with the assemblyman for the area, the queen-mother reported to the Mim police and subsequently sent the baby to the hospital.
10 July 2020
Residents of Bremang in the Ashanti Region were thrown into a state of shock on Friday, 10 July 2020, when they discovered a fresh baby at a public lavatory in the town.
The baby girl was found wrapped and dumped in a bin at the facility shortly after delivery.
21 July, 2020
A newborn baby was dumped into a public toilet at Mempeasem in Bole in the Savannah Region on 21 July. The newly born baby was wrapped in a polythene bag and disposed into a manhole in the public toilet.
13 July, 2019
A day-old baby girl was rescued from a public toilet in Kusinjan, a suburb of Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality.
12 April, 2019
A newborn baby was found dead at a refuse dump in Techiman, the Bono East regional capital. The baby was wrapped in a white cloth bearing the name “Ibrahim Joana”.
10 April, 2019
The Paga District Police Command mounted a search for a mother who abandoned her newborn baby girl at the maternity ward of the Paga District Hospital.
According to hospital authorities, the woman, identified as 29-year old Christiana Akamlu, reported to the facility on 7 April in her second stage of labour and was admitted and safely delivered a baby girl at about 3 pm the same day.
23 October, 2018
The Police at Sibi in the Nkwanta-North District in the Volta Region went on a manhunt for a mother who dumped her newborn baby in a pit latrine shortly after delivery.
The runaway mother is said to have dropped the baby girl inside a 10-feet abandoned latrine at the Sibi Central Basic School to kill it.