[ 2021-03-17 ]

9-year-old boy burnt to death as stepfather sets house ablaze
A nine-year-old boy has been killed in an inferno
after his stepfather set their home ablaze at
Medoma in the Ashanti Region Monday dawn.

The blaze swept through four rooms in the
apartment in which they live, affecting other
families.

The man, known only as Agyemang, his wife and twin
of the deceased, sustained various degrees of
injury.


The step-father is said to have repeatedly
assaulted his wife and two children.



“When I got home the night before the incident,
the woman pleaded with me to speak to her husband
who wasn’t happy with the wife since she
accepted a phone from her brother. I called him
and pleaded with him to desist from assaulting his
wife”, the landlord, Daniel Opoku narrated.

“He agreed and asked for forgiveness. I
threatened to evacuate as I have done on several
occasions,” he added.

Mr. Opoku says deep into the night, sounds of a
loud cry for help woke him up.

The landlord subsequently found the burglar proof
to the apartment locked.

“I managed to open the door and saved the woman
and the girl but I couldn’t get to the boy. The
woman later told the guy had wet a blanket and
thrown it on the boy before starting the fire,”
he added.

The 9-year-old boy, Prince Oti Atta, is said to
have shown great potential in drawing and was
widely described as a bubbly child.

Firefighters after extinguishing the fire
recovered the charred body of the victim and
deposited it at the morgue.

Other families occupying the house managed the
escape unhurt.

But they lost all their property to the inferno
with no hope of a place to pass the night.

The rationale behind the man’s action remains
unclear.

He is currently receiving treatment at the Komfo
Anokye Teaching Hospital under police watch.

Source - Joyfm

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