Police have arrested three suspects for allegedly kidnapping a baby in Kasoa, Central Region. The suspects pretended that the baby was dead and took her to Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region. The suspects, Magdalene Nana Adwoa Boafo, 28, Faustina Binney, 32, and Eunice Koomson, a 36-year-old teacher at Ebenezer High Academy, a private school in Ofaakor, are currently in custody at the Kasoa Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit, helping with the investigation.
According to Citi News sources, Nana Adwoa Boafo, the prime suspect, reportedly approached the mother of the baby who sells sachet water in the traffic at Ofaakor in the Kasoa municipality during her eighth month of pregnancy and offered to assist her financially. She later introduced her to the two other suspects, Eunice and Faustina, who pretended to be offering genuine support.
In order to cover up their intentions, the suspects reportedly relocated the mother from Ofaakor-Jei River, where she lived, and rented an apartment for her at Lamptey, a suburb of Adam Nana, also in Kasoa, and continued to offer little forms of support until she delivered at the Kasoa Polyclinic on July 10, 2024.
But things got twisted just after the mother, 29-year-old Abigail Addison, and the baby, who was in a healthy condition, were discharged. The three suspects introduced another woman to Abigail, claiming that she was a medical staffer at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and that it was recommended for the toddler to be taken there for treatment because she had some infections, a ploy the new mother fell into.
The three suspects allegedly returned to the victim two days after and, amidst uncontrollable weeping, announced to the mother that the baby had died at Korle-Bu and was already buried. The victim’s landlord, who spoke to the media, said he was suspicious of their actions and reported the matter.
The collaborative efforts of the Kasoa DOVVSU commander, DSP Doris Laryea and other individuals led to the arrest of the lead suspect, Nana Adwoa, who had questionably resigned from her workplace in Ofaakor, which was the only place the victim could trace her.
She initially insisted that the toddler was dead, but upon further interrogation, she admitted the baby was alive and with her sister at Madina. She later changed her statement that the baby was rather with the second suspect, Eunice, in Alico City, a suburb of Ofaakor.
Eunice, after she was arrested through painstaking investigations, also mentioned the third suspect, Faustina Binney, a resident of Ablekuma, as having custody of the toddler who was also subsequently arrested.
The victim, who has become traumatised as a result of the events, wants the suspects punished for their actions.
By: Calvis Tetteh
