NEWS

The Dansoman Divisional Police have mounted a search for a woman who abandoned her cripple child in tro-tro bus last week. Her husband Isaac Larkai Lamptey who is in police custody would soon be prosecuted for negligence. In a telephone interview, the divisional commander Alex Yartey- Tawia said the woman is still on the run.

It will be recalled that the Times on June 13, reported that a two- years- old  boy was found in an abandoned commercial buss with registration number GT 699 parked in front of a hotel at Mataheko, a suburb in Accra.

When the Times visited the boy on Wednesday at the police hospital, he was said to be doing well. Deputy superintended of police (DSP) Juliana Dartey a paediatric nurse at the children ward the boy was brought to the hospital with upper respiratory tract infection. She said no relative of the boy had so far shown up. Chief inspector Susan Anyan Boateng of the social welfare service department said that the child would be sent to the Osu children’s home.

A source at the hospital, told the Times that the boy a twin was suffering from paralysis. According to the source, the father of the child who has been picked up by the police claimed that the other twin is at Amasaman with family members.    

Credit: Ghanaian Times.