The Waywardness of a thirty year-old nursing mother, Asantewaa Lily, has led to the untimely and avoidable death of a seven-month-old baby boy who was painfully killed by the breast of her mother while he was being breast-fed.
The heavily intoxicated nursing mother while breastfeeding her baby fell deeply asleep on the baby with her breast still in the mouth of her son on Saturday evening at Akyem Old Tafo in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The breast, family sources say suffocated the baby to death while the wayward mother was deeply asleep. The deceased has since been buried.
Sources close to the family revealed that the nursing mother, a habitual drunkard got drunk at a funeral in the community over the weekend and headed straight to the house for her baby who had suffered hours of hunger.
When she got to the house at night, realizing the baby was hungry because he was crying incessantly, decided to breastfeed him, but fell asleep on him and suffocated the baby to death.
The nursing mother after waking up the next morning found out that her baby had died. She was said to have screamed for help, but when people got to the scene the baby had long died before being sent to the hospital.
She later informed the family members about the incident which led to the burial of the deceased the same day.
The Akyem Tafo District Police Commander, ASP John Yeboah in an interview said no official complaint has been lodged about the incident; however, he assured that thorough investigations would be conducted into what residents describe as silent murder and the necessary action taken.
The nursing mother is now left with two children.
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