The police in Kumasi are investigating three women for allegedly stealing a day-old baby from a maternity home at Suame, a suburb of Kumasi.
The three – Grace Osei, 59 and a midwife; Comfort Agyei Kyem, 57; and Cecilia Annor, 44 – were arrested after the police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit at Kumasi got a tip-off that one of the suspects, Cecilia Annor, was having in her custody a baby which was not hers.
The three are currently in police custody assisting in investigations.
ASP Mintah at a press briefing Monday said Cecilia led police to arrest Comfort and she also mentioned the midwife at Ayiwa Maternity Home at New Suame in Kumasi.
According to the police, the suspects in their caution statements revealed that Cecilia had gone to Kumasi Children’s Home early this year to adopt a child.
She met the typist at the home, Comfort Adjei, who took 500 hundred Ghana cedis for adoption forms.
ASP Regina Mintah said Comfort Adjei later called Cecilia Annor on phone that the baby was ready for her to pick.
She says Cecilia who has been feigning pregnant for months quickly met Comfort Adjei.
Together, they went to the maternity Home at New Suame where a day old baby boy was handed over to her.
According to ASP Mintah, an amount of three thousand Ghana cedis was paid by Cecilia’s husband to the other two suspects.
The baby is about three months old now and is in the custody of the Kumasi Children’s Home as police continue their investigation.
