Breman Asikuma (C/R), June 30, GNA - Madam Esi Botchway, a-30-year- old nursing mother from Breman Asikuma, is helping the Police in the town in their investigations into the circumstances that prompted her to abandon her two children in the bush.
A police source who pleaded anonymity told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that madam Botchway claimed she did that because her husband had refused to cater for the children and herself. The source said on June 25 2009, a farmer who gave his name as Kofi Kweanu found one of the children whose name is being withheld, on his farm and brought him to the police station.
The police spokesman said when news about the boy reached madam Botchway and her grandmother they came to the police station and claimed ownership.
He said Madam Botchway in her police statement said her husband who stays at a different part of Asikuma, and whose name she did not mention, had not been catering for the children and had been quarrelling with her each time she went to him for money.
According to the source the woman therefore decided to send the two children, aged two and four years, to her husband's farm where she abandoned them and went away.
A search party organised by the police and the people of the town found the other boy on the third day at Breman Eyipe, about nine kilometres away from where he was abandoned, the police source said. The children were later sent to the "Our Lady of Grace" Hospital for medical attention, while Madam Botchway has been granted police bail pending further investigations.
