Two women who are alleged to have stolen a one-month old boy have been arrested by the James Town Police in Accra.
The suspects, Joyce Asheley, 30 and Lamley Mills, 34, reportedly took the baby from the side of his mother on July 8, 2016 while she was fast asleep.
According to the Accra Regional Police PRO, ASP Effia Tenge, a complaint about the missing boy was made at the James Town on July 8, 2016 and investigations were began.
The complainant and mother of the baby, Joyce Oblitey Commey, told the police that she went to bed on July 7 with her baby and that at midnight when she woke up to breastfeed the child, she could not find him.
Police investigations into the matÂter revealed that Joyce Asheley  took the child after claiming that Madam Oblitey (the mother) owed her È»60.00
The Ȼ60.00, according to information gathered, is the medical bill, Joyce Asheley, who is the girlfriend of the father of the complainant, paid before the child's mother was discharged from the hospital on June 8, 2016 when the child was born.
Asheley is reported to have threatened to take the baby in exchange for the money after the child's mother refused to pay but she denied knowing the whereabouts of the boy when the police first invited her for questioning.
On July 26, 2016, police had information that the child was with a woman at Odorkor Official Town and proceeded to the location where the found him with Lamley Mills who upon interrogations, mentioned Asheley as the one who brought the child to her for safekeeping.
The child, according to ASP Tenge, was in good health, but a police medical form was issued for him (baby) to be sent to the hospital for proper medical attention.
The child has since been given back to the mother but the two susÂpects are still in custody assisting in investigations, D¢aily Guide reported.