Mother And Son-In-Law Arrested For Abetment For Fatal Abortion

    0
    95

    Paulina Agborku, 47 and, Yawtse Kwashie, 30, mother and husband respectively of Abigail Agborku, 28, who died in a botched illegal abortion, have been arrested by the Aflao Police. “Dr” Efo Atsu, a self-styled medical doctor, said to have carried out the illegal abortion, is however on the run.

    Paulina Agborku and Yawtse Kwsahie have been granted bail in the
    sum of 600 Ghana cedis each with three sureties by the Aflao Circuit
    Court.

    Their pleas were not taken and would come back to court on April
    19 this year. Sergeant Stepehn Wuni, a Detective Police, told the court presided over by Francis Obiri that Abigail lived with her husband, Kwashie, with their three children aged 6, 3 and 2.

    He said Paulina insisted on the abrogation of the marriage
    between Abigail and Kwashie but realized in January year that her
    daughter was about four months pregnant and demanded that the
    pregnancy be terminated.

    Sgt Wuni said Kwashie gave 90 Ghana cedis to Abigail and directed
    her to “Dr” Atsu to undergo an abortion. He said the abortion developed complications the following day and Atsu was called in from Klikor Agbozume to Adafienu where he administered some infusions on Abigail but she fell into a coma and was taken to the Ketu South District Hospital at Aflao.

    Mr Wuni said the Hospital referred Abigail to the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho where she died on January 27. He said Paulina failed to submit a note from the Ketu-South District Hospital to the Police for investigations and also failed to honour schedules with the Police which could have helped in arresting Atsu.

    Mr Wuni said some unidentified persons from the Agborku family
    removed the deceased’s body from the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho to
    the Saint Anthony’s Hospital morgue at Dzodze where it was embalmed
    thus damaging clues to the cause of death. He said investigations were continuing.

    Here is the original post: