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General News on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-01-30
Efua, 22, and her husband were arrested by police
Central region police arrested the father and stepmother of the five-year-old boy, whose arm was left rotting as a result of a cutlbad injury that the mother-in-law inflicted on him. Was not treated.
David Mensah, a 36-year-old palm wine taster, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at the University Hospital of Cape Coast, where he signed a consent form for the amputation of the left arm of the victim.
The boy's mother-in-law, Efua Baidoowa, a 22-year-old pregnant mother, already badfeeding another baby, was also arrested after visiting the victim, Isaac Mensah, at the hospital on Tuesday.
His statement has since been taken by the police.
Police announced that she would summon the two suspects in court Wednesday morning, with a possible charge of causing harm to the mother-in-law.
3news announced on Tuesday that a 22-year-old woman accidentally inflicted a cutlbad wound on her son's left arm about a month ago in Ahomfie, a village close to Abura Dunkawa, with no signs of injury. to have treated.
A week later, the wound began to deteriorate and degenerate gradually, resulting in the decomposition of the arm.
Currently, the boy's left forearm has become non-fictional, doctors say that his veins and cells are dead, while the decomposition gradually extends to the shoulder area.
According to the doctors, they will have to amputate the arm before it causes other damage, little boy.
"I did not intend to hurt her"
The mother-in-law told our correspondent Thomas Cann of the hospital on Tuesday that she had no intention of hurting the stepson and that what had happened was accidental.
She said that Isaac Mensah had defecated her complex, so she decided to punish him when they would go to the farm.
"I was holding a cutlbad, so I decided to use his side to hit him, but he raised his arm to block it and, unfortunately, the cutlbad cut him off. We took him to a clinic where he received an injection and some medicine, "she said.
According to the woman, the man at the clinic who looked after the boy asked that he be brought with him to be examined every three days to heal the wound. She claimed that said man had also told her to use lukewarm water to clean the wounds at home.
"When I tried to do it, he emptied the water. I decided to boil some water again and I poured some on the sore. I later realized that he was swollen, but I continued to take him to the man who was styling him, "she said.
When asked what caused the deterioration of the wound, she admitted that the hot water that she had shed on the wound had made her worse.
Two men saw the boy in town in Ahomfi on Monday, January 28, and were alarmed by a rotten hand.
Shocked by the boy's story, the two men immediately reported the case to NCCE District Director Ellen Osei, who also reported it to the police before taking her to the hospital on the same day for a medical examination.
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