A 35-year-old woman, Eunice Brobbey, has been 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 him or her after a series of announcements at the town’s community information centres.
The queen-mother, together with the assemblyman for the area, reported the matter to the Mim police and subsequently sent the baby to the hospital.
The Mim District Police commander, Superintendent Charles Agyei, confirmed the incident on Asaase Radio and added that they had arrested the woman who committed the crime.
So far, no charges have been levelled against the suspect because she is yet to appear before court.
The elders of the Bediako Traditional Council went to plead with the Mim District police commander for the suspect to be released to enable her take care of her baby.
But the police declined.
The suspect’s grandmother claimed that her granddaughter might have abandoned the baby because she already had seven children and was not willing to cater for another one.
This is not the first time a baby has been abandoned in Ghana. In July 2020, alone, two babies were abandoned in public toilets in the Ashanti and Savannah Regions.
July 10, 2020
Residents of Bremang in the Ashanti Region were thrown into a state of shock on Friday, July 10, 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 in the facility shortly after it was delivered.
July 21, 2020
A newborn baby was dumped into a public toilet at Mempeasem in Bole in the Savannah Region on July 21. The newly born baby was wrapped in a polythene bag and disposed into a manhole in the public toilet.
July 13, 2019
A day-old baby girl was rescued from a public toilet in Kusinjan, a suburb of Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality.
April 12, 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”.
April 10, 2019
The Paga District Police Command mounted a search for a mother who abandoned her newborn baby girl in the maternity ward of the Paga District Hospital.
The woman, identified as 29-year old Christiana Akamlu, according to hospital authorities, reported to the facility on April 7 in her second stage of labour and was admitted and safely delivered a baby girl at about 3 pm same day.
October 23, 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.
