The Awutu Bereku District Police Command has detained a pair for reportedly confining their 9-year-old son in a bush for 2 days whereas restrained with chains.
The incident occurred in Gomoa Nkwantanan, inside the Gomoa East District.
The suspects, recognized as Bismarck Odoi, 35, and Saviour Arthur, 33, allegedly admitted to the act, citing the kid’s “stubbornness” as justification for the acute disciplinary measure.
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In keeping with reviews by Kofi Adjei, the boy was found by an area lady accumulating firewood, who subsequently alerted authorities.
James Mensah, the person who escorted the kid to the police station, knowledgeable Adom Information that the sufferer was dropped at the chief’s palace with chains and padlocks nonetheless connected to his legs.
The boy recounted that his father had threatened punishment after he and his youthful brother arrived late to high school.
Upon returning dwelling, he was taken to a secluded space, restrained, and deserted.
Rapid authorized actions and prosecution pathways
The disturbing case of the 9-year-old boy chained in a bush for 2 days by his dad and mom constitutes a critical violation of Ghana’s youngster safety legal guidelines and calls for fast motion underneath the authorized framework.
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Beneath Part 1 of Ghana’s Kids’s Act, 1998 (Act 560), each youngster has the precise to dignity and safety from merciless therapy, whereas Part 91 explicitly prohibits subjecting a toddler to torture or different merciless, inhuman, or degrading therapy – provisions that clearly apply to this example.
The Home Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732), additional criminalises such acts of violence towards youngsters inside household settings.
Legislation enforcement authorities should make sure the suspects face prosecution underneath these statutes, with explicit consideration to Part 314 of the Legal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), which prescribes imprisonment for as much as 10 years for illegal confinement.
