A thirty-seven year old father who slashed the throat of his three year-old son at a village near Kpeve in the Volta region will appear before court on Monday<\/p>\n
The Peki Police have\u00a0\u00a0identified the suspect as Gideon Abotsi, a Farmer.<\/p>\n
The horrific incident occurred on Friday in the full glare of Gideon\u2019s wife and other children.<\/p>\n
According to Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Volta regional correspondent, Norbert Akpablie, \u201cthe man slayed his three year old son with a cutlass for his wife\u2019s refusal to bring forth an additional child to the four children they already have.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the residents who witnessed the unimaginable scene told Citi News that the wife of the farmer is in complete trauma.<\/p>\n The victim’s mother was reportedly devastated and inconsolable after the incident.<\/p>\n The Peki District Police Commander, Deputy Superitendent of Police (DSP) Mr, Jonas Abgbevam said Abosti confessed he had been under the influence of Indian hemp.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, members of the farming community are still in a state of shock over the conduct of the suspect.<\/p>\n The Volta Regional Commander, ACP Peter Yentumi who confirmed the incident has said the suspect has been arrested and is expected to appear before court on Monday as investigations continue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A thirty-seven year old father who slashed the throat of his three year-old son at a village near Kpeve in the Volta region will appear before court on Monday The Peki Police have\u00a0\u00a0identified the suspect as Gideon Abotsi, a Farmer. The horrific incident occurred on Friday in the full glare of Gideon\u2019s wife and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-33209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}