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A little over a month after a mother had been jailed for six years for torturing her biological son, another woman has allegedly boiled the two hands of her nine-year-old son at Mosuko, Kwabenya, near Accra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The suspect, Emelia Ofosu, a 25-year-old unemployed mother of two, is said to have put the hands of her son (name withheld) in boiling water for squandering the GH\u00a21 which she had given to him as refuse dumping fee.<\/p>\n

Boy pockets money\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Daily Graphic contacted the Madina Office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ms Christine Sropenyo said on March 28, 2015, Emelia gave her son money to go and dump refuse at a nearby dumping site, but the boy allegedly pocketed the money and dumped the refuse behind a neighbour\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

About 8 a.m. the following day, she said, the neighbour confronted Emelia and accused her of using the back of her (neighbour\u2019s) house as a refuse dump.<\/p>\n

After the neighbour left, Ms Sropenyo said, Emelia, who was heating water meant for bathing her younger child, dipped her son\u2019s hands in the hot water.<\/p>\n

When the boy shouted for help, Emelia allegedly reprimanded him and warned him to put a stop to his bad behaviour or face worse forms of punishment.<\/p>\n

Good Samaritan to the rescue\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Sropenyo said a Good Samaritan, who went to the boy\u2019s rescue when he was being tortured by his mother, took the boy to a private clinic nearby and later reported the matter to the Kwabenya Police.<\/p>\n

After the Good Samaritan had filed a complaint, the mother \u00a0of the victim was arrested, following which the case was referred to the Madina DOVVSU.<\/p>\n

However, when Emelia was arrested, she told the police that her son had slipped and accidentally fallen into the hot water.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet police investigations and the victim\u2019s statement established that the suspect had forcibly put her son\u2019s hands in hot water,\u201d Ms Sropenyo said.<\/p>\n

My son is a thief\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman , according to the police, claimed her son was a thief and that he had been stealing from her and some neighbours.<\/p>\n

Ms Sropenyo said the suspect said her son had been stealing phones and money belonging to other people, which was causing her a lot of embarrassment.<\/p>\n

The suspect, the DOVVSU coordinator said, told the police she had even taken her son to \u201ca prayer centre for him to be delivered from the evil spirit that was making him steal, but to no avail\u201d.<\/p>\n

The police have since granted the suspect, who is pregnant, bail, but the Madina DOVVSU Coordinator said she had been charged with causing harm and would be put before court.<\/p>\n

Mother \u00a0sentenced<\/strong><\/p>\n

On\u2008February 26, 2015, an Accra Circuit Court sentenced a 40-year-old mother, Mary Timah, to six years\u2019 in prison for causing harm to her biological son with an electric iron.<\/p>\n

She had inflicted injuries on her 14-year-old son with a hot electric iron for allegedly stealing GH\u00a220 she had kept in her wardrobe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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