A wicked grandmother has shocked her community by brutally killing her daughter's three-week-old child and burying her in a shallow grave.
Grace Amoah
A thirty-five-year-old woman has been arrested by the Cape Coast police for allegedly killing her three-week-old grandchild and burying her in a shallow grave, Happy Ghana FM reports.
It was gathered that the suspect, Grace Amoah also known as Esi Yeboada, a petty trader was exposed by her 17-year-old daughter Joyce Amoah, a JHS two pupil who was the mother of the deceased.
It was revealed that Grace killed the baby, collected a shovel from a neighbour and secretly buried the body behind a public toilet at an outskirt of Akotokyer, a suburb of Cape Coast.
However, her luck ran out after Joyce Amoah told the police that her mother [Grace] started picking quarrels with her when she [Joyce] became pregnant. Her reason was that Joyce was still a pupil and was still in school.
She further revealed that when she was delivered of the baby, her mother who was also nursing a baby asked her to give the grandchild to her for her to breastfeed her whilst she [Joyce] continued with her schooling.
Things took an ugly turn in the early hours of Tuesday April 5, 2016 as Joyce claimed she couldn't find the whereabouts of the baby and asked her mum, whom she shares the same room with but she denied knowing the whereabouts of the baby.
The sack used in burying the baby
The case was reported to the police and Grace was subsequently arrested. After she was interrogated, Grace voluntarily led police to the place she buried the baby's dead body and exhumed it. The body has since been deposited at the Cape Coast Hospital.
According to the Ghanaian Times newspaper Grace was arraigned before the Cape Coast Magistrate Court on Wednesday and was remanded in police custody until April 21, 2016.
The newspaper reported that the prosecution told the court that Grace in her caution statement denied killing the grandchild but said she secretly buried the child after she discovered he was dead.