A 28-year-old mother at Essikafoumantem in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District, Central Region, is in the grips of Police for abandoning her day-old baby.
Gladys Mensah, the suspect, was arrested by the Assin South District Police moments after residents who found the baby reported their finding to the Police command.
An information center operator, Barima Tsibu who spoke to Angel FM’s Kwame Owusu Asante said the baby was found covered with a cloth on the morning of December 6, 2021 at his residence.
According to Gladys, she had no intensions of dumping the baby but the circumstances under which she got pregnant and gave birth forced her to leave the baby where someone would find it.
Among her reasons were financial difficulties and her single-parenting challenges, as a mother of two (now three).
Gladys added that the second child is too young to have a back born, a situation she is embarrassed about which also affected her judgement.
That said, an interview with an uncle of the baby’s mother revealed that he was taking care of Gladys and her two children even while she was pregnant.
He admitted that her pregnancy with the third child displeased the family, however they never expected her to abort or cast the baby away.
The baby was delivered in a nearby bush on December 6. The news team’s visit to the birth place revealed blood stains on the ground with parts of the womb, suggesting that she delivered without help from midwives.
Assin South District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police Francis Adam Okyere, who confirmed the unfortunate incident said the baby has been sent to hospital to be attended to.
He noted that processes have been initiated for the Department of Social Welfare–Assin North District–to take proper care of it.
