Step mum leaves 5year-old kid’s arm to rot after she accidentally cut it
A report by 3news suggests that one arm of a 5year-old boy is decomposing at a fast rate after his step mum left it rot having mistakenly cut it.
The incident happened in the central Region of Ghana where the victim, Isaac Mensah’s left arm has deteriorated.
According to medical experts at the Central Regional Hospital, his arm is no longer functional because the cells and veins are all dead and will have to be amputated to prevent it from spreading to other parts of his body.
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Apparently the boy was sent to the Cape Coast hospital by the Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE).
On Monday, 28th January 2018 two men spotted the boy in a town called Ahomfi.
The men who became alarmed by the condition of the boy’s arm interrogated him and he claimed his stepmother did the demage to him.
According to the boys, his step mother mistakenly cut his left hand during a daily work in their cassava farm.
The stepmother didn’t border about the hand till after a week when it got swollen uncontrollably.
She then decided to treat it with boiled water in the traditional fashion.
The two men decided to take the boy to the District Director of NCCE, Mrs Ellen Osei who also reported the case to the Police.
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