Jilted girl, 17, commits suicide

A 17-year-old student of Fijai Senior High School in Takoradi has committed suicide.

Mary Rudolph is said to have drunk some poisonous substance suspected to be weedicide ostensibly to kill herself because her boyfriend has jilted her.

The deceased, described as a pretty fair young girl, is a day student who lived on her own in a house very close to her school, while her mother, Sophia Rudolph lives at Apowa, a suburb of Takoradi and equally not too distant from her school.

Speaking to Maxx News, the Kwesimintsim District Police Commander, DSP Y.A. Ayamga, said on Monday, September 12, Mary, who was on vacation appeared very depressed and was showing an unusual behaviour at home.

But when her mother inquired to know what was wrong with her, she did not open up.

The mother deliberately sent her on an errand and then questioned Mary’s close pal to ascertain what was wrong with her daughter.

Mary’s friend, according to DSP Ayamga, told the mother that she was perhaps showing signs of depression because she could not write her terminal examinations. In the night of the same day, the deceased is said to have returned home sweating profusely.

The mother, who suspected something was amiss, inquired from her daughter for the second time, who confessed that she had drunk some weedicide because her boyfriend, who lives in Tarkwa, had jilted her.

She was quickly rushed to the Kwesimintsim Polyclinic, from where she was later transferred to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital on Wednesday. She died at 10pm the same day.

Her body has since been deposited at the hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.

DSP Ayamga said police are still investigating the incident.

The deceased’s mother who has since been shattered by the sad and unexpected end of Mary, has not been able to say a word about her daughter’s demise.

Students of Fijai Senior High School, who are equally shocked at the news, have been questioning why the pretty young girl could kill herself over a man.