Accra: Grandma Whips Child With Wire (PHOTO)

A 47-year-old food vendor at Kotobabi in Accra, Habiba Musa, is being held by the Tesano branch of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service for allegedly whipping her granddaughter mercilessly with a piece of wire.

The 11-year-old girl suffered the inhuman treatment because she wet her bed. She sustained cuts on the head, neck, back and thighs.The young victim was rushed by the police to the Police Hospital for treatment.

ASP Experanza Ayensu-Danso, the Tesano Divisional DOVVSU officer narrated to DAILY GUIDE that the victim’s mother was the first daughter of the suspect.The victim lived with the suspect and some other children of the suspect at Kotobabi, near Tesano.

Early yesterday morning around 5:00am, two gentlemen reported to the Tesano branch of DOVVSU that they had spotted the suspect severely beating up the victim with wire for wetting her bed the previous night. When police personnel visited the house, the victim was seen weeping outside the house, with blood oozing from the head, neck and back.

When the body of the victim was properly examined, there were other marks of assault all over the back, thighs and stomach.

The child could not even turn her neck when she was being interrogated by the police.

When the police contacted the grandmother, suspect Habiba Musa denied having beaten the girl but claimed it was one of her sons who beat up the child for wetting her bed.

At the police station, the child disclosed that the grandmother and her children normally subjected her to such treatment anytime she wet her bed.

The victim said the grandmother stripped her naked around 5:00am yesterday when they realized that she had wet her bed and using the wire, she beat her up mercilessly.

The two men who witnessed the brutality rescued the girl from the wrath of the grandmother and consequently informed the police.

The victim had since been rushed to the Police Hospital for medical care while suspect Habiba remained in police cells to help in investigations.