Woman 'delivers' baby into pit latrine at Kwabenya

The police have arrested a woman who delivered a baby girl into a pit latrine at Kwabenya, a suburb of Accra.

The woman, Patricia Addae claimed she did not know she was pregnant.

The 32-year-old mother of two told the Kwabenya police that she only got to know when she went to the toilet to attend to nature’s call and delivered the baby.

The baby was rescued from the toilet by people in the neighbourhood who heard it crying, and took her to the hospital, together with the mother.

The matter was reported to the Kwabenya Police Station where the mother is being held for investigation.

A medical source at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Hospital where the child is on admission, told The Ghanaian Times that the baby’s condition was stable.

It said the child was brought to the hospital with maggots in the nostrils and was quickly put on treatment.

Superintendant Victoria Yamoah, Kwabenya District Police Commander, told The Ghanaian Times yesterday, that the woman’s claim that she did not know she was pregnant was “strange”, and added that they were conducting further investigations.

She said the woman claimed that she had not been going to the hospital to check on her health because a pastor told her that she had a spiritual problem which could be solved through prayers.

Supt. Yamoah said the woman claimed she felt like going to toilet yesterday dawn, and while easing herself, the baby dropped into the pit latrine.