Judith Atatsi and the little girl she killed
A shocking incident has left residents of Mempeasem, near East
Legon in Accra, in shock, after a 20-year-old woman allegedly beat her
three-year-old step daughter to death.
According to AdomNews, Judith Atatsi, unemployed, is said to have used her shoe to beat the girl for playing with electrical gadgets.
The victim, after sustaining injuries, was left in the room of her
father until she died. The father of the girl, according to reports, was
outside Accra when the incident occurred.
She was found lying in a supine position with blood stains all over the body on the bed of her father.
The body of the child, found with various marks and wounds, has
since been deposited at the Police Hospital mortuary pending autopsy.
Narrating the incident to DAILY GUIDE, the East Legon District
Crime Officer, DSP Belinda Banini, said the suspect was arrested
following a complaint by the mother of the victim, Felicia Abotse that
her former husband had called her from the Upper East Region to inform
her that her daughter had died and so she should go to his house at
Mempeasem to convey the body to and needed police assistance.
DSP Belinda Banini said when the police accompanied the woman to
the house at Mempeasem, they found the body lying on a bed with blood
stains on it.
According to the police, the mother of the child claimed that the
father of the child took her from her (mother) in December 2015 to spend
the weekend with her paternal grandmother at Takoradi in the Western
Region.
She said the father later refused to bring back the child.
DSP Belinda Banini said the mother claimed that all efforts to see
the child or inquire about the child on phone proved futile until she
received the call on July 16, 2016 that her daughter had died.
Suspect’s statement
Judith Atatsi, upon investigation, said she used a piece of stick
to hit the girl and not shoe. She said she went out to withdraw some
money and upon her return, she discovered that the girl was playing with
the electrical gadgets and used the stick to beat her up.
She later abandoned the girl in her father’s room until she died
before the father was informed. However, police investigations showed
that Atatsi used the heels of her shoe which was found with blood stains
on it, to assault the kid.
Further investigations revealed that the child’s father, after
separating with the mother, brought his girlfriend from Takoradi to
take care of his daughter while he travelled to Bolgatanga to work.
The man, said to be a supervisor in a private company, reportedly shuffles between Accra and Takoradi.
Madam Felicia Abotsi, mother of the deceased, in an interview, said
she had been calling the father of her child to plead with him to allow
her to talk to her daughter on phone “but he usually gives excuses that he is either at work or the child had gone to school.”
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