She reportedly erected a ridge on
the crime scene to conceal her act.
A woman whose only name CAMNEWS
got as Yika and her daughter, a Form Four student of Government High School
Shishong, Kumbo, have been nabbed by Kumbo gendarmes in connection with the
alleged burning to ashes of a new born baby at Mbuluf village in Bui Division
of the North West Region.
According to sources, the
daughter, whose names are being withheld, delivered the child in a raffia palm
bush late December 2014. The grandmother of the new born, who is said to be
insane, reportedly gathered palm fronds which she used in burning the foetus to
ashes. The story goes that after the act, she made a ridge on top of the ashes.
When inquisitive villagers
discovered that the pregnancy of the daughter had disappeared, they question
the two, but they refused to say the truth. Even a Deputy Mayor of Kumbo who
lives in the village tried to get the truth out, to no avail. It was only when
the suspects were taken to the Kumbo Gendarmerie Post that the truth came out
that the child was delivered and set on fire.
Our findings show that four crude
abortions were committed in Mbuluf last year. One of the women, who could not
bear the pains, went to the Shisong Cardiac Hospital, Kumbo, where it was
discovered that cassava stems inserted into her genitals had killed the foetus
in her womb. According to the same sources, the woman is today seeking medical
attention in Bamenda as a result of the abortion that damaged one of her
kidneys.
Peter Adi FONTE
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