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Woman, 35, Kills And Buries 3-Week Old Baby Of 17-Yr-Old Daughter

By primenews.com.gh
The exhumed body of the baby
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A 17-year-old JHS 2 pupil, Joyce Amoah, has caused the arrest of her mother for killing a three-week old boy she (Joyce) gave birth to.

 

The suspect,  Grace Amoah, according to her daughter and mother of the deceased, aafter the murder, buried him secretly at the outskirts of Akotokyer, a suburb of Cape Coast.

Narrating the incident, Joyce said her mother started picking up quarrels with her when she (Joyce) got pregnant because of the fact she was still schooling.

When she delivered the baby, she continued,  her mother who was also nursing a baby asked her to give the grandchild to her for her to breastfeed her whilst she (Joyce) went back to school.

On the dawn  of Tuesday, April 5, she woke up and could not her baby but when she asked her mother, she could not give any tangible explanation.

The case was reported to the police leading to the arrest of the Grandmother. After interrogation,  she led the police to where the baby was buried and the body was exhumed.

A relative of the suspect who gave her name as Akyere says she strongly suspects the Grandmother to have committed the murder.

The body has since been deposited at the Cape Coast Hospital for autopsy.