{"id":401926,"date":"2018-02-16T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=401926"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:55:19","slug":"mother-3-others-arrested-for-killing-supposed-evil-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/mother-3-others-arrested-for-killing-supposed-evil-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, 3 others arrested for killing supposed ‘evil child’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Four persons have been arrested by police at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region for allegedly killing a child accused of possessing an evil spirit.<\/p>\n
Those arrested includes the mother and grandmother of the deceased five year-old child.<\/p>\n
Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Ebenezer Tetteh, told Citi News<\/strong> the police are still on a manhunt for the father of the child who is the prime suspect.<\/p>\n \u201cThe allegation being peddled around is that the child was killed because he was finding it difficult walking. He is five years as the information says; they expected that such a child will walk. There is this superstition that such babies are from the other world, so these are the things that led to killing of the boy\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Community members\u00a0believe the five-year-old disabled child signified misfortune for the family.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Farida Yusif\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four persons have been arrested by police at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region for allegedly killing a child accused of possessing an evil spirit. Those arrested includes the mother and grandmother of the deceased five year-old child. Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Ebenezer Tetteh, told Citi News the police are still on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[17115,17116,3],"yoast_head":"\n