10-year-old girl mysteriously murdered in Adjei-Kojo

Crime and punishment of Saturday, September 5, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-09-05

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A 10-year-old girl was mysteriously murdered Friday night in her room in Sun City, a suburb of Adjei-Kojo, in Tema West Township.

The girl had returned home alone around 9:30 p.m. from the side of the road where her mother sold food.

Since then, Sun City police had deposited the girl’s body in the morgue of Tema General Hospital.

The Ghanaian news agency learned that Salomy Terkpertey, the girl’s mother, returned home after 10:30 p.m. to find her daughter murdered with her throat and abdomen cut and parts of the intestines removed.

According to the co-tenants, they were inside their rooms watching television and therefore did not hear any screams or unusual noise until approximately 11:00 p.m. when they heard the victim’s mother screaming.

They said they ran to the scene only to see the girl’s lifeless body in a pool of blood with her stomach and throat slit, a situation they described as shocking and terrifying.

How the perpetrators managed to carry out such a heinous crime remained a mystery to the grieving community.

Frederick Nartey Sr. said he resided in Kade in the Eastern Region where he cultivated, indicating that he woke up to a series of missed calls from his wife and some friends around 12:30 am on Saturday, and returned the call alone to be told. that his daughter had been murdered.

Mr. Nartey revealed that it was normal practice for the mother to ask the girl to return home before her, adding that, prior to her death, the victim’s mother asked her to go home and sleep while she continued. selling.

Ali Issifu, a landlord, said he was home early Saturday morning when one of his tenants accompanied by a police officer informed him about the incident.

Issifu expressed shock and asked the police to unravel the mystery behind the murder, as the residents now lived in fear.